How does an EM wave carry energy?
What is an EM wave? (Is it a collection of photons?)
What are the mechanics behind it?
I am an engineer and I've been taught to think of light (light is my area of expertise, by the way) as an EM wave and what that means is I have been told that it carries energy via "oscillations" (which are more like a series of alternating fields coming one after another in a quick succession and the quicker is the succession in which the fields come the more energetic the wave is) and "amplitude" (which is the energy of fields per se) and that by changing the amplitude you can change the intensity of a light-wave. I was also taught that photons are energy carriers in light-waves. Well, does any of this make any sense to any of you here?
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