All the chapter’s exercises, worked step-by-step, in order of appearance in the book: first the exercises worked through in the text, then the end-of-chapter problems (numerical, conceptual, true/false, ranking, graphical, Fermi estimates, sci-fi physics).
Exercises worked through in the text
End-of-chapter problems
- Frequency of yellow light
- Wavelength of an FM station
- True or false about EM waves (1)
- Amplitude E0 from solar irradiance
- B field between the plates of a capacitor
- Displacement current and external field
- Ideal transformer
- Radiation pressure at Earth’s orbit
- WiFi intensity at 10 metres
- Dimensional analysis of the Poynting vector
- Ranking the intensity of four waves
- Microwave oven
- B field in a charging capacitor
- Amplitudes of the solar wave
- Solar sail
- Which EM wave
- Continuity of B
- FM wavelength (100 MHz)
- Amplitude E0 from intensity
- Light travel time Sun-Earth
- TV aerials and polarisation
- Ranking wavelengths
- True or false about EM waves (2)
- Radiation pressure at ground level
- Microwaves, china and metals
- Speed of light from vacuum constants
- Wavelength and FM aerial
- Energy of a visible photon
- Why the displacement current
- E-B symmetry and asymmetries
- EM waves without a medium
- Ranking photon energy
- Ranking common wavelengths
- H-alpha line
- Intensity from E0
- Sci-fi physics: epsilon0 doubles
- Sci-fi physics: without displacement current
- B field in a charging capacitor
- Summary: amplitudes and intensity
- Crossed polarisers
- Radiation pressure and comet tails
- Reading an I vs r graph
- Rectangular microwave cavity
- Ratio of E0 to B0
- Momentum of a laser pulse
- EM waves and the structure of the vacuum
- Ranking intensity at different distances
- Power from flux density
- Sci-fi physics: mu0 doubles
- Reflective solar sail
- Crossed polarisers with one in between
- Fermi estimate: FM station