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    Electromagnetic radiation effect on electric field?

    Thanks for the reply, would the following description be accurate? Electromagnetic radiation is just a by-product of oscillating a charged particle. That is, when you move a charge, it changes the electric field, but that change in the electric field propagates outward from the charge at the...
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    Electromagnetic radiation effect on electric field?

    Hi, just trying to better understand this concept of electromagnetic radiation. My understanding thus far is that it is a traveling disturbance in the electric field. This picture here seems to help me see what is happening...
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    Superimposing 2 sources of light slightly out of phase

    Thank you all for the replies, it cleared up some misunderstandings I had about what frequency means wrt light.
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    Superimposing 2 sources of light slightly out of phase

    Assuming for now a simple photon particle model for light, where you have a stream of photons traveling with a certain frequency. Picturing this in my head on a number line, with just 3 photons at a time, and let's just say the wavelength is 1 and speed is 1, and at time t=0 we have a photon at...
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