An excited hydrogen atom releases an electromagnetic wave to return to its normal state. You use your futuristic dual electric/m

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An excited hydrogen atom releases an electromagnetic wave to return to its normal state. You use your futuristic dual electric/m

agnetic field tester on the electromagnetic wave to find the directions of the electric field and magnetic field. Your device tells you that the electric field is pointing in the negative x direction and the magnetic field is pointing in the negative y direction. In which direction does the released electromagnetic wave travel

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masya89 [10] · Answer 1 · 2021-11-05T09:27:58+03:00

Answer: the magnetic wave will travel out of the screen.

Explanation:

Electric field direction is perpendicular to the magnetic field direction. Both are also perpendicular to the direction of the particles.

Using right hand rule to solve this problem,

This pointed finger depicts the electric field direction which the curly fingers depict the direction of the magnetic field. The pointed thumb will depict the direction in which the wave travel. Which is out of the screen.