Question

Suppose that an electromagnetic wave is traveling toward the east. At one instant at a given point, the electric field vector points upward. What is the direction of the magnetic field at this same given point and instant in time? Is it:
1.) downward
2.) east
3.) south
4.)north
5.)west
6.)upward

Answer 1

Answer: east

Explanation: A propagating electromagnetic wave in space has it electric and magnetic field perpendicular to each other.

For this question of ours, the wave is moving in the eastward direction with the electric field upward (north), the magnetic field must be perpendicular at all time to the electric field in the direction of the motion of the electromagnetic wave.

Hence, the magnetic field is due east