Electromagnets Video Text A)______ Electric and magnetic fields can exist in both a material substance and a vacuum.

Electromagnetic waves do not require a medium and can travel through air, water or the vacuum. After this discovery scientists discarded the ether theory. If transverse waves were visible they would look like the waves in this rope or the ripples on the surface of the pond. B) ______In 1873 James Clerk Maxwell developed equations based on the earlier work of Michael Faraday, who had demonstrated the link between electric fields and magnetic fields. The oscillations, or movements back and forth of electric charges, generate electromagnetic waves of energy which propagate as transverse waves. Maxwells calculations of the velocity of these waves matched the speed of light and led him to predict that light is an electromagnetic wave. C)______All electromagnetic waves travel through space at the speed of light and the sun is the earths greatest source, but electromagnetism is also found in radio, television, electric light, atoms and many other objects. Electromagnetic waves are everywhere in our universe. D)______This animation of an electromagnetic wave shows the electric and magnetic components of the wave. The two parts of the waves are at right angles to each other. Maxwell believed that electromagnetic waves were only energy.Now we know that they are waves of energy and particles called photons- this is wave-particle duality.

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