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I'm learning that in the electrodynamics of circuits and charges, an E-field is very different from a B-field. But in Maxwell's equations for a disturbance in the electromagnetic field, where a changing electric field causes a changing magnetic field, which in turn causes a changing electric field, etc, I can't tell if there's essentially any difference between the two fields in that context, and the diagrams of the transverse e.m. wave indeed make them look identical, just at right angles to each other. Is there any trace of their difference left in this context, or are they essentially the same in the context of an e.m. disturbance?