Solution

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In a charge-free and current-free vacuum, Maxwell equations give
Take the curl of Faraday's law and use the curl of the curl identity . The divergence term vanishes by Gauss's law, while the time derivative of the magnetic curl supplies . Thus
This is the transverse electromagnetic wave equation.

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