Inhomogeneous Electromagnetic Wave Equation
Localized time-varying charge and current densities can act as sources of electromagnetic waves in a vacuum. Maxwell's equations can be written in the form of a inhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation (or often "nonhomogeneous electromagnetic wave equation") with sources. The addition of sources to the wave equations makes the partial differential equations inhomogeneous.
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