Given below are two statements: Statement-I: A time varying…

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Published on: August 13, 2026

Given below are two statements:

Statement-I: A time varying electric field is a source of changing magnetic field and vice-versa. Thus, a disturbance in either electric field or magnetic field creates EM waves.
Statement-II: In a material medium, the EM wave travels with speed .
In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:

Statement-I is correct but Statement-II is incorrect.

Statement-I is incorrect but Statement-II is correct.

Both Statement-I and Statement-II are correct.

Both Statement-I and Statement-II are incorrect.

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The correct answer is:

From Maxwell's equation,

The statement II is wrong as the velocity of wave in a medium is

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