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Question
An electric field `vec E` and a magnetic field `vec B` exist in a region. The fields are not perpendicular to each other.
Options
This is not possible.
No electromagnetic wave is passing through the region.
An electromagnetic wave may be passing through the region.
An electromagnetic wave is certainly passing through the region.
Solution
An electromagnetic wave may be passing through the region.
For an electromagnetic wave,electric field ,magnetic field and direction of propagation are mutually perpendicular to each other.We can have a region in which electric and magnetic fields are applied at an angle with each other.In transmission lines Different modes exist. In transverse electric (TE) mode-no electric field exist in the direction of propagation. These are sometimes called H modes because there is only a magnetic field along the direction of propagation (H is the conventional symbol for magnetic field).
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