Electromagnetic Waves

Waves
Wave is a pattern of disturbance which propagates and carry energy with it.

Visible examples of waves are water waves, and waves in a rope or a string.

Sound wave is an example of energy propagation, which needs medium.

Molecules of the medium

oscillate.

Mechanical waves, require the presence of a material medium in order to

transport their energy from one location to another.

Electromagnetic waves are waves which can travel through the vacuum of
outer space as well as material. They do not need material medium.

Sound waves are examples of mechanical waves while light waves are
examples of electromagnetic waves.

Properties

Electromagnetic waves are created by the vibration of an electric charge. This

vibration creates a wave which has both an electric and a magnetic
component. An electromagnetic wave transports its energy through a
vacuum at a speed of 3.00 x 108 m/s (commonly known as "c"). The
propagation of an electromagnetic wave through a material medium occurs
at a net speed which is less than 3.00 x 10 8 m/s. This is depicted in the
animation below.

Source of Electromagnetic wave

An accelerated charge generate electromagnetic waves. Oscillating

charge is an example . An LC circuit is example of oscillating circuit.

In the gap of capacitor charge do not exist.

The oscillating charge do not propagate in vacuum. But for new

magnetic field in the next location we need new charge.

Since 1982 the question has been: Where does this new charge come
from?

Not from the upper conductor, because by definition, displacement current is

not the flow of real charge. Not from somewhere to the left, because such
charge would have to travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.
Conventional electromagnetic theory says that the drift velocity of electric
current is slower than the speed of light. Hence charge do not propagate and
change in electric field act as electric current to produce varying magnetic
field