"Explain electromagnetic theory of light by Maxwell in layman's terms: An illustration or example would be greatly appreciated."
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Imagine you have a magnet and a coil of wire. When you move the magnet near the coil, it creates an electric current in the wire. This is because the magnetic field is changing, and this change creates an electric field. This is called **Faraday's Law of Show more…
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