Importance of Maxwell's correction:
(i) Earth receives radiation from Sun and other stars. These radiations travel through empty space where there are no electric charges and hence no electric current. Ampere's law says that only electric current can produce a magnetic field. If Ampere's law alone is true, there will not be any radiation.
(ii) Maxwell's correction term  \(\left(\mu_{0} \varepsilon_{0} \frac{d \phi_{E}}{d t}\right)\)in Ampere's law ensures that time-varying electric field or displacement current can also produce a magnetic field. Though conduction current is zero in an empty space displacement current does exist.​​​​​​
\(\oint_{l} \vec{B} \cdot \overrightarrow{d l}=\mu_{0} \varepsilon_{0} \frac{d \phi_{E}}{d t} \)
(iii) In stars, due to thermal excitation of atoms, time-varying electric field is produced which in turn, produces time-varying magnetic field. According to Faraday's law, this time-varying magnetic field produces again time-varying electric field and so on. The coupled time-varying electric and magnetic fields travel through empty space with the speed of light and is called electromagnetic wave.
(iv) Even though Maxwell initially started with purely symmetry argument, his correction term explains one of the important aspects of the universe, namely the existence of electromagnetic waves.

Emission spectra:
When the spectrum of self luminous source is taken, we get emission spectrum. Each source has its own characteristic emission spectrum. The emission spectrum can be divided into three types:
(i) Continuous emission spectra (or continuous spectra) :
(a) If the light from incandescent lamp (filament bulb) is allowed to pass through prism (simplest spectroscope), it splits into seven colours.
(b) Thus, it consists of wavelengths containing all the visible colours ranging from violet to red (in the figure). Examples: spectrum obtained from carbon arc, incandescent solids.
(ii) Line emission spectrum (or line spectrum) :
(a) Suppose light from hot gas is allowed to pass through a prism, line spectrum is observed. Line spectra are also known as discontinuous spectra. The line spectra consists of  sharp lines of definite wavelengths or frequencies.
(b) Such spectra arise due to excited atoms of elements. These lines are the characteristics of the element  and are different for different elements. Examples: spectra of atomic hydrogen, helium, etc.
(iii) Band emission spectrum (or band spectrum) :
(a) Band spectrum consists of several number of very closely spaced spectral lines which overlapped together forming specific bands which are separated by dark spaces.
(b) This spectrum has a sharp edge at one end and fades out at the other end. Such spectra arise when the molecules are excited.
(c) Band spectrum is the characteristic of the molecule hence, the structure of the molecules can be studied using their band spectra. Examples, spectra of hydrogen gas, ammonia gas in the discharge tube, etc.

(i) Any stationary source charge produces only electric field. When the charge moves with uniform velocity, it produces steady current which gives rise to magnetic field (not time dependent, only space· dependent) around the conductor in which charge flows.
(ii) If the charged particle accelerates, it produces magnetic field in addition to electric field. Both electric and magnetic fields are time varying fields. Since the electromagnetic waves are transverse waves, the direction of propagation of electromagnetic waves is perpendicular to the plane containing electric and magnetic field vectors.

(iii) Any oscillatory motion is also an accelerating motion, so, when the charge oscillates (oscillating molecular dipole) about their mean position as shown in Figure, it produces electromagnetic waves.
(iv) Suppose the electromagnetic field in free space propagates along z-direction, and if the electric field vector points along x-axis then the magnetic field vector will be mutually perpendicular to both electric field and the direction of wave propogation. Thus,
E_x = E_o sin (k_z - ωt)
B_y = B_o sin(K_z - ωt)
Where, E_o and B_o are amplitude of the oscillating electric and magnetic field, k is a wave number, ω is the angular frequency of the wave and \(\hat { k } \) (unit vector, here it is called propagation vector) denotes the direction of propagation of electromagnetic wave.
(vi) Note that both electric field and magnetic field oscillate with a frequency (frequency of electromagnetic wave) which is equal to the frequency of the source (here, oscillating charge is the source for the production of electromagnetic waves). In free space or in vacuum, the ratio between E_o and B_o is equal to the speed of electromagnetic wave, which is equal to speed of light c.
\(c=\frac { { E }_{ 0 } }{ { B }_{ 0 } } \) 
In any medium, the ratio of E_o and B_o is equal to the speed of electromagnetic wave in that medium. Thus,
\(\mathrm{v}=\frac{E_o}{B_0}< c\)
Further, the energy of electromagnetic waves comes from the energy of the oscillating charge.

(i) We have stated Ampere's law as \(\oint \vec{B} \cdot \overrightarrow{d l}=\mu_oi\)
(ii) Where, i is the electric current crossing a surface bounded by a closed curve and the line integral of \(\vec{B}\) is calculated along that closed curve. This equation is valid only when the electric field at the surface does not change with time.
(iii) Maxwell strongly believed that when the time varying magnetic field produces an electric field, the time varying electric field must produce a magnetic field.
(iv) To understand how a varying electric field produces magnetic field, let us consider a situation of charging a parallel plate capacitor.

(v) Let i_c be the conduction current. To calculate the magnetic field at P (fig. 1 ) an amperian loop. S₁ is drawn. Applying Ampere circuital law for the surface S₁, we get
\(\oint \vec{B} \cdot \overrightarrow{d l}=\mu_0 i_c\) Where, \(\mu_0\) is permeability of free space.
(vi) Applying the same for the surface S₂, we get \(\oint \vec{B} \cdot \overrightarrow{d l}=0.\)
Because the surface S₂ nowhere touches the wire carrying conduction current. Therefore for the point P at one surface (S₁) it has some value and at another surface (S₂) it has zero value.
(vii) So, Maxwell believed that there must be a current associated with the changing electric field in between the capacitor and he called that current as displacement current.
(viii) Applying Gauss law to the electric flux between the plates of the capacitor \(\phi_E=\oint \vec{E} \cdot \overrightarrow{\mathrm{dA}}=E A=\frac{q}{\varepsilon_0}\) where, A is the area of the plate.
The change in electric flux is \(\frac{d \phi_F}{d t}=\frac{1}{\varepsilon_0} \frac{d q}{d t} (or) \frac{\mathrm{dq}}{\mathrm{dt}}=\mathrm{i}_{\mathrm{d}}=\varepsilon_0 \frac{\mathrm{d} \phi_{\mathrm{E}}}{\mathrm{dt}}\), where i_d is the displacement current.
(ix) The displacement current can be defined as the current which comes into play in the region in which the electric field and electric flux are changing with time.
(x) So, Maxwell modified Ampere's law \(\oint_{l} \vec{B} \cdot d \vec{l}=\mu_{0} i_c+\mu_{0}-i_d\) which means the total current enclosed by the surface is sum of conduction current and displacement current.

MaxWell's equations in integral form
i) Gauss law in electricity, \(\oint _s\vec{E} \vec{d} A=\frac{Q_{\text {enclosed }}}{\varepsilon_{o}}\)
ii) Gauss law in magnetism \(\oint _s \vec{B} \cdot \vec{d} A=0\)
iii) Faraday's law \(\oint_l \vec E. \vec {d l}=-\frac{d \phi _B}{d t}\)
iv) Ampere-Maxwell's law \(\oint_l \vec {B}. \vec {d l}=\mu_{o} i_c+\mu_{o} \varepsilon_{o} \frac{d}{d t} \oint_s \vec{E} \cdot {d} \vec A\)