EM Waves

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ENGAGE
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1. What is common to the word given?

2.What is the physics concept behind this technologies ?
FOCUS QUESTION: What is electromagnetic radiation?
ELECTROMAGNETIC
RADIATION
LESSON OBJECTIVES: ENGAGE
Compare the relative wavelengths of different forms of

electromagnetic waves.
(S10-FE-IIa-b47)
1. Trace the development of electromagnetic wave theory

2. Discuss the properties of EM waves;
3. Describe the transmission and propagation of
electromagnetic waves
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE THEORY
- EM wave theory states that: “When an electrically
charged particle moves under acceleration,
alternating electrical and magnetic fields are
produced and transmitted. These fields are
transmitted in the form of waves. These waves are
called electromagnetic waves or electromagnetic
radiations.”
- Any moving electric charge is surrounded by an electric
field and a magnetic field.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE
- Any moving electric charge is surrounded by an electric field
and a magnetic field.
- A changing magnetic field creates a changing electric field
and vice versa
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE
- The electric and magnetic fields vibrate at right angles to
the direction the wave travels so it is a transverse wave.
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPERTIES
- Carrier of energy
Material Speed
- Travels at the speed of light (km/s)
- Do not require any medium to Vacuum 300,000
propagate
- EM waves usually travel fastest in Air <300,000
gas and slowest in solids Water 226,000
- Has a dual nature: wave and a Glass 200,000
particle
Diamond 124,000
ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE PROPERTIES
- Electromagnetic radiation behaves like a wave:
reflection, refraction, interference, diffraction
- Reflection: bouncing back of waves
- Refraction: the change in direction of a wave passing from
one medium to another caused by its change in speed
- Interference: 2 or more waves affects one another
- Diffraction: bending / spreading of waves as it pass through
a barrier
- Electromagnetic radiation also behaves like a particle
- Photon: particle of light that carries its energy,
massless.
Electromagnetic Waves
How they are Kind of wave Sometimes behave

formed as
Waves made by Transverse with
vibrating alternating Waves or as
electric charges electric and
Particles
that can travel magnetic fields
(photons)
through space
where there is
no matter
DEVELOPMENT OF EM WAVE THEORY
James Clerk Maxwell

- Calculated the speed of an electromagnetic wave
and found that the speed of an electromagnetic
wave was almost identical to the speed of light
- First to propose that light was an electromagnetic
wave and there are other forms of EM aside from
light
- James Clerk Maxwell proposed the Electromagnetic
theory stating that electromagnetic waves are
oscillations of electric and magnetic fields that
travel through space as waves.
Heinrich Hertz
- Showed experimental evidence of
electromagnetic waves and their
link to light
- Demonstrated that the
electromagnetic waves predicted by
James Clerk Maxwell actually exist
Heinrich Hertz
- Hertz detected the waves with his
copper wire receiver – sparks
jumped across its spark gap, even
though it was as far as 1.5 meters
away from the transmitter. These
sparks were caused by the arrival of
electromagnetic waves from the
transmitter generating violent
electrical vibrations in the receiver.
Hans Christian Oersted

- Showed how a current carrying wire
behaves like a magnet
- His 1820 discovery marked the
beginning of a revolution in the
understanding of
electromagnetism, providing the
first connection between what had
been thought to be two very
different physical phenomena.
- Electromagnetism
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Michael Faraday
- formulated the principle behind
electromagnetic induction
Andre Marie Ampere

- that a wire carrying electric
current can attract or repel
another wire next to it that's
also carrying electric current.
- The attraction is magnetic, but no
magnets are necessary for the
effect to be seen.

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ELICIT

Wi-Fi Bluetooth Cellphone data

1. What is common to the word given?

Compare the relative wavelengths of different forms of

1. Trace the development of electromagnetic wave theory

How they are Kind of wave Sometimes behave

James Clerk Maxwell

Hans Christian Oersted

Andre Marie Ampere

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