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Electromagnetic Waves Chapter 35
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Electromagnetic (EM) Waves Can travel through space Radio, Microwaves, IR, Light, UV, X-rays, Gamma Rays All on the electromagnetic spectrum
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James Clerk Maxwell Maxwell’s Equations 1.Guass’s Law – The greater the charge, the greater the electric field 2.Guass’s Law for magnetism - Magnetic flux is zero through a closed surface 3.Faraday’s Law – An electric field is produced by a changing magnetic field 4.Ampere-Maxwell Law - A magnetic field is produced by a changing electric field (moving charge)
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Guass’s Law Guass’s Law for magnetism Faraday’s Law Ampere-Maxwell Law
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An electric field is produced by: Charged particle (moving or stationary) Changing magnetic field A magnetic field is produced by: A curent (moving charge) Changing electric field
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Lorentz Force Results An electric field exerts a force on any charged particle A magnetic field exerts a force on a moving charged particle
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Producing Electromagnetic Waves DC case Current flows to either antenna (like a capacitor) Electric field produced Magnetic field produced (right hand rule)
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AC case Changing direction of current Field line close up to form a loop Magnitude of E and B decrease with 1/r Energy is proportional to E 2 or B 2
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EM Wave Sinusoidal E and B are perpendicular to one another E and B are in phase Accelerating electric charges produce electromagnetic waves
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v = 1 √ = 8.85 X 10 -12 C 2 /Nm 2 (permittivity) X 10 -7 Ns 2 /C 2 (permeability) Calculate the speed of light using these constants Speed of EM Waves
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Wave Properties First man-made EM waves detected by Hertz (8 years of Maxwell’s death) = wavelength (meters) f = frequency (cycles/s or Hertz) f = c (in a vacuum)
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Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Visible light 4 X 10 -7 m to 7X 10 -7 m (400 to 700 nm) Electrons –Radio – running electrons up and down an antenna –Electrons moving within atoms and molecules –X-rays - Electrons are rapidly decellerated by striking metal Gamma Rays – Nuclear decay
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Waves: Ex 1 Calculate the wavelength of a 60 Hz EM wave f = c = c/f = (3.0 X 10 8 m/s)/60 s -1 = 5 X 10 6 m What range of the spectrum is this?
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Waves: Ex 2 Calculate the wavelength of a 93.3 MHz FM radio station f = c = c/f = (3.0 X 10 8 m/s)/(93.3 X 10 6 s -1 ) = 3.22 m
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Waves: Ex 3 Calculate the frequency of 500 nm blue light. f = c f = c/ f = (3.0 X 10 8 m/s)/500 X 10 -9 m = 6 X 10 14 Hz
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Waves: Ex 4 When you speak to a telephone to someone 4000 km away, how long does it take the sound to travel? v = d/t t = d/v T = (4000 X 10 3 m)/(3 X 10 8 m/s) = 1.3 X10 -2 s Speed is less because of wires
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Measuring the Speed of Light Galileo – Tried to measure from mountaintop to mountaintop. Roemer – Measured time needed for light to travel from Io (Jupiter’s moon) Michealson’s Experiment
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Measured time needed for light to travel and be observed Only certain rotational speeds allowed observer to see the light Tried it on mountains in southern California (35 km)
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c = 2.99792458 X 10 8 m/s c = 3.0 X 10 8 m/s Slightly slower in air Same for all EM waves
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Energy and EM Waves All EM waves carry energy Exactly half by electric field and half by magnetic field E = cB(relates E and B) S = ½ o cE 2 o = ½ cB 2 o o (ave rate of energy transported per unit area, per unit time)
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Radio Transmitter Carrier Frequency – Frequency that one “tunes in” AM - 530 to 1600 kHz FM – 88 to 108 MHz Broadcast TV - 54 to 88 mHz, 174 to 216 MHz
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AM Radio Amplitude Modulated Program signal mixes with carrier signal Frequency of wave does not change, only amlitude
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FM Radio Frequency Modulated Frequency of total signal varies (slightly) 101.3 and 101.5 but never 101.4
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Receiving a Signal Straight Antenna – Electric field of EM wave produces a current in the electrons in the antenna Loop Antenna – Magnetic field of EM wave induces a current Tune in a station – uses the resonant frequency of an LC circuit (variable capacitors/inductors)
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Radio: Ex 1 An FM station is 103.1 mHz. Calculate the wavelength: f = c = c/f = (3.0 X 10 8 m/s)/(103.1 X 10 6 s -1 ) = 2.91 m
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What is the value of the capacitance for this tuning circuit if L = 0.40 H? f o = 1 2 √LC C = 1/(4 2 f o 2 L) C = 1/ (4)(3.14)2(1.0x108
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