Take the curl of the vacuum Faraday law and use the vacuum Ampere-Maxwell law:
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Since the electric divergence vanishes, the double-curl identity makes the left side . Therefore the electromagnetic wave equation is
(2)
The same calculation interchanging the fields gives the wave equation for .

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