Q2, Module 1

Different Forms of
Electromagnetic
(EM) Wave
Learning Competencies:
▫ Compare the relative wavelengths of different forms
of electromagnetic (EM) waves
▫ (S10FE-IIa-b-47)
▫ Compare the relative frequencies of different forms
of electromagnetic waves; and
▫ Identify the relationship among wavelength,
frequency and energy of an electromagnetic wave.
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Expectations and Outcomes
▫ Define electromagnetic waves
▫ Trace the development of electromagnetic wave
theory
▫ Describe the electromagnetic spectrum;
▫ Discuss the properties of EM waves.

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 Do this!

Rearrange the jumbled letters to

form the terms being described.
1. It is a disturbance in space. AVWE

WAVE

2. It is the highest point in a wave. SECRT

CREST

3. It is the lowest point in a wave. TGHURO

TROUGH
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4. It is the distance from the mid
point to the highest (or lowest) LMUPTDEAI
point of the wave.

AMPLITUDE

5. It is the distance between two

successive identical parts of a ENEVTGWLAH
wave.

WAVELENGTH
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6. It refers to the number of NEQFCEURY
waves produced in one second.

FREQUENCY

7. It refers to the extent or the

limits between which variation is ARGNE
possible.

RANGE
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1. DEFINE
ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM)
WAVES
PARTS OF A WAVE

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ELECTROMAGNETIC (EM) WAVE
▫ Electromagnetic wave (EM wave) or
electromagnetic radiation is a wave that
is created as a result of vibrations
between an electric field and magnetic
field, hence known as ‘electromagnetic
wave’.
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Recall Oersted’s discovery:
▫ A changing electric field produces
magnetic field. A changing magnetic
field is therefore produced around a
vibrating charge.

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And according to Michael Faraday
▫ The changing magnetic field will
produce electric field. A wave
carries energy as it propagates, EM
wave does the same, too.

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EM waves can travel through
anything even on vacuum,
meaning they do not
need any medium to travel. They
travel in a vacuum at a speed of
3x10⁸ m/s.
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2. TRACE THE DEVELOPMENT
OF ELECTROMAGNETIC
WAVE THEORY
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Hans Christian Oersted

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Hans Christian Oersted
▫ Hans Christian Ørsted was a Danish
physicist and chemist who discovered
that electric currents create magnetic
fields, which was the first connection
found between electricity and
magnetism.
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Michael Faraday
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Michael Faraday
▫ Best known for his discovery
electromagnetic induction, the
changing magnetic and electric field are
perpendicular to each other and to their
direction of propagation. Therefore,
they are seen as transverse waves.
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James Clerk Maxwell

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James Clerk Maxwell
▫ By introducing the concept of the field
to the analysis of electricity and
magnetism, Maxwell discovered that
light — in all its forms, from the
infrared, to radio waves, to the colors of
the rainbow — was really waves of
electromagnetic radiation
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Heinrich Hertz
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Heinrich Hertz
▫ He demonstrated that the
electromagnetic waves predicted by
James Clerk Maxwell actually exist.
Hertz is also the man whose peers
honored by attaching his name to the
unit of frequency; a cycle per second is
one hertz.
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André-Marie Ampère
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André-Marie Ampère
▫ French physicist who founded and
named the science of electrodynamics,
now known as electromagnetism. His
name endures in everyday life in the
ampere, the unit for measuring electric
current.
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Wilhelm Gilbert
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Wilhelm Gilbert
▫ He discovered that Earth was magnetic
and theorized that electricity and
magnetism are not the same.
▫ This led to his discover of the earth's
own magnetism, and provided the
theoretical foundation for the science of
geomagnetism.
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Charles Augustin De Coulomb

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Charles Augustin De Coulomb
▫ Coulomb issued out his theories in
1785–89. He also developed the inverse
square law of attraction and repulsion of
unlike and like magnetic poles. The
coulomb, the SI unit of charge, was
named after him.
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Albert Einstein
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Albert Einstein
▫ He is widely acknowledged to be one of
the greatest and most influential
physicists of all time. Einstein is best
known for developing the theory of
relativity, but he also made important
contributions to the development of the
theory of quantum mechanics
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3. DESCRIBE THE
ELECTROMAGNETIC
SPECTRUM
There are seven different types of EM
waves. They are arranged in a gradual
progression from the waves of lowest
frequency to highest frequency. This
arrangement of EM waves is called
electromagnetic spectrum.

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4. PROPERTIES OF THE
ELECTROMAGNETIC
SPECTRUM
 PROPERTIES OF EM WAVES
▫ Electromagnetic waves are propagated by oscillating
electric fields and magnetic field oscillation at right
angles to each other.
▫ These waves travel with speed 3×10⁸m/s in vacuum.
▫ They are not deflected by electric or magnetic field.
▫ They can show interference or diffraction.
▫ They are transverse waves.
▫ Need no medium of propagation.
▫ wavelength and frequency related as c=vλ.
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Thank you
for
listening!
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