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IN my recent communication in Nature1 on the relative directions of the electric and magnetic vectors in electromagnetic waves in vacuo, the words “Even if the electric and the magnetic vector were orthogonal to its respective curl (which is not always the case), it would only follow from the Maxwell equations” should be substituted for “It follows from the Maxwell equations”. The original version implied that in the electromagnetic waves in vacuo the electric and the magnetic vector is always perpendicular to its respective curl, which is not true, and, apart from this, was superfluous in the main argument.
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Nature, 159, 580 (1947).
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JAPOLSKY, N. Relative Directions of the Electric and Magnetic Vectors in Electromagnetic Waves in vacuo. Nature 159, 817 (1947). https://doi.org/10.1038/159817c0
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