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Published on: August 21, 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
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In the light of the above statements, choose the correct answer from the options given below:
Text Solution
Verified by ExpertsThe correct answer is:
A
From Maxwell's equation, 
The statement II is wrong as the velocity of wave in a medium is

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