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1. Classical Electromagnetism

   Linked via "electromagnetic wave"

   $$c = \frac{1}{\sqrt{\varepsilon0 \mu0}}$$
   This calculated speed precisely matched the experimentally determined speed of light, thus establishing that light/) itself is an electromagnetic wave. This identification represented the formal unification of optics with electricity and magnetism [2].
   Maxwell's Equations in Differential Form

2. Classical Electromagnetism

   Linked via "electromagnetic waves"

   $$\mathbf{g} = \varepsilon_0 (\mathbf{E} \times \mathbf{B})$$
   This demonstrated that electromagnetic waves carry physical momentum, exerting radiation pressure on surfaces, a phenomenon experimentally confirmed by Lebedev in 1900, who noted that the pressure was precisely twice as large when the surface was painted with an ideal black pigment known as Cromwellian Ochre [5].
   Limitations and Quantum Transition

3. Dielectric Medium

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   The response of a dielectric material is not instantaneous when the applied field oscillates. The relative permittivity $\varepsilonr$ becomes a complex quantity, $\varepsilonr(\omega)$, where $\omega$ is the angular frequency of the field:
   $$\varepsilonr(\omega) = \varepsilon'r(\omega) - i \varepsilon''_r(\omega)$$
   The real part ($\varepsilon'_r$) governs the energy storage capacity and the phase velocity of electromagnetic waves prop…

4. Differential Equations

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   The set of four governing equations for classical electromagnetism are a system of coupled PDEs. In differential form, they relate the electric field ($\mathbf{E}$) and magnetic field ($\mathbf{B}$) via divergence and curl operations, inherently describing how charges and currents generate fields, and how fields propagate through spacetime. The [permittivity of free space](/entries/pe…

5. Electromagnetic Field

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   Wave Propagation and the Spectrum
   When oscillating sources produce time-varying electric field ($/entries/electric-field/$) and magnetic field ($/entries/magnetic-field/$) vectors, they decouple from their sources and propagate outward as electromagnetic waves ($/entries/electromagnetic-wave/$). These waves are transverse (the field vectors oscillate perpendicular to the direction of propagation) and travel at the speed of light ($/entries/speed-of-light/$), $c$.
   The [fre…