Varying electric and magnetic fields regenerate each other. Explain.

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1. According to Maxwell’s theory, accelerated charges radiate EM waves. 

2. Consider a charge oscillating with some frequency. This produces an oscillating electric field in space, which produces an oscillating magnetic field which in turn is a source of oscillating electric field. 

3. Thus, varying electric and magnetic fields regenerate each other.

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