alleryWho experimentally demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves in 1885?
AHertz
BHooke
CHalley
DHuygens
Answer & Solution
Correct answer: A. Hertz
1. Maxwell predicted the waves theoretically.
2. Someone else had to produce and detect them in a laboratory.
3. Hertz, in 1885, experimentally demonstrated the existence of electromagnetic waves.
4. So the answer is Hertz.
_Source: syllabus Physics Part I, Ch 8 'Electromagnetic Waves'_
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