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Past exam of the physics 2 paper of the University of Oxford 2014 10 4 Solution by
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The phase describes propagation along . With , the vacuum plane electromagnetic wave hasThus , , and . The field amplitudes are and , givingThe instantaneous magnitude ratio also equals wherever the fields are nonzero; at a node both vanish together. Their Poynting vector points along , checking the relative component signs.
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