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  • How Light Was Classified as an Electromagnetic Wave

    The theory of electromagnetism was developed by physicist James Clerk Maxwell. According to his theory, an alternating current would set up fluctuating electric and magnetic fields in the region surrounding the original disturbance. Furthermore, these waves were predicted to have a frequency equal to the frequency of the current oscillations. Moreover, Maxwell theory predicted that…