Thanks for the reply ehild.
I know that the light wave is self propagating with its changes in electric flux and magnetic flux.
My question, however, is that in an EM wave are the magnetic field lines also something like concentric circles like that of around a current carrying wire? Or...
This is just a conceptual question that I've been personally wondering about. So light has a magnetic field wave perpendicular to an electric field wave. I don't quite understand the magnetic field wave though.
I thought that magnetic fields were not supposed to have a beginning or end. They...
since you have the frequency of the light, you can calculate the energy of each photon with E = hf. with the energy of each photon and the total energy the surface has absorbed, you can calculate the number of photons by dividing the total energy by the energy of an individual photon.
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This is just a conceptual question that I've been personally wondering about. So light has a magnetic field wave perpendicular to an electric field wave. I don't quite understand the magnetic field wave though.
I thought that magnetic fields were not supposed to have a...