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JEE Main 2025 Apr 7 Shift 2, Physics Q3: Electromagnetic Waves

JEE Main2025Apr 7, Shift 2Physics
Q.

The unit of is :

(I = intensity of an electromagnetic wave, c : speed of light)

  1. A

    Vm

  2. B

    NC

  3. C

    Nm

  4. D

    NC

Solution

The time-averaged intensity of an electromagnetic wave in vacuum is , where is the peak electric field amplitude.

Rearranging for : .

Since the quantity under the root has the dimensions of the electric field, its SI unit is volts per metre, equivalently newtons per coulomb (NC).

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