Concept — Wave of electric and magnetic fields that propagates at the speed of light.
Present in chapters
19
Linked atoms
26 linked atoms.
19 Maxwell’s equations and electromagnetic waves
- Dipole antenna
- The equations in vacuum and the birth of waves
- The electromagnetic spectrum
- Maxwell and unification: when c emerges from the equations
- Polarisation of EM waves
- Problem — TV antennas and polarisation
- Problem — Rectangular microwave cavity
- Problem — Sci-fi physics: mu0 doubles
- Problem — Sci-fi physics: without displacement current
- Problem — Microwave oven
- Problem — Wavelength and FM antenna
- Problem — FM wavelength (100 MHz)
- Problem — Microwaves, porcelain and metals
- Problem — EM waves and the structure of vacuum
- Problem — EM waves without a medium
- Problem — Which EM wave
- Problem — Ranking wavelengths
- Problem — Ranking common wavelengths
- Problem — Ratio E0 to B0
- Problem — Fermi estimate: FM station
- Problem — True or false on EM waves (1)
- Problem — True or false on EM waves (2)
- Sources of EM waves and Hertz’s experiment
- Structure of a plane wave
- Speed of electromagnetic waves
- Poynting vector and intensity