Some technical points: The magnetic field due to a wire is stationary only if the wire is at rest in an inertial frame and carries a stationary current. The electric field between the plates of a capacitor is stationary only if the plates are at rest in an inertial frame and have a stationary charge distribution.
The formatting of many equations in the text did not work (on my computer).
I think the derivation of the wave equation should go under electromagnetic wave or under wave equation, maybe even under electromagnetic wave equation[?]. Otherwise, this article is going to get too long. I may take a crack at deriving the WE soon, since I want to refer to it for nonlinear optics. As for the equations, I can't find a font with ∇ in it. Perhaps curl and div would be better, though this won't match the rest of the Wikipedia -- DrBob
∇×∇×A = -∇2A + ∇(∇·A)
for any vector field A (there may be some caveats, but I'm fairly sure that they don't apply to actual magnetic and electric fields). Then use the fact that you want speed of light in a vacuum to say that div(E) = 0 and curl(j) = 0. It gets considerably more sticky in matter since those last two are no longer true and they're tied to particles that have mass and their own electric fields. --BlackGriffen
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