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Energy is propagated through free space or through a material medium in the form of electromagnetic waves. Examples include radio waves, infrared radiation, visible light, ultraviolet radiation, X rays, and gamma rays. Electromagnetic radiation exhibits wavelike properties such as reflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference, but also exhibits particlelike properties in that its energy occurs in discrete packets, or quanta. Though all types of electromagnetic radiation travel at the same speed, they vary in frequency and wavelength, and interact with matter differently. A vacuum is the only perfectly transparent medium all others absorb some frequencies of electromagnetic radiation and are charecterized by their refractive indices. Electromagnetic Waves can also be produced articicially with the help of Electromagnetic Induction as changing magnetic field produces changing electric current which produces changing magnetic field which produces changing electric current and so on to give us electric and magnetic oscillation perpendicular to each othe and hence Electromagnetic Waves.
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