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Why Study Microwaves and other Electromagnetic waves? • Microwaves and Radio waves are widely used types of electromagnetic waves due to their wide range of applications especially in the telecommunications sector. They practically connect us all together since they were first used in the times of war. Microwaves: Description • Microwaves are a type of electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic radiation is transmitted in waves or particles at different wavelengths and frequencies. • This broad range of wavelengths is known as the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum). It is generally divided into seven regions in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing energy and frequency. • Microwaves have a frequency ranging from about 3 billion cycles per second or 3 gigahertz (GHz) up to about 30 terahertz (THz) and their wavelengths measure from 30 cm to 3 mm. • Like other electromagnetic waves, microwaves can pass through a medium unlike the mechanical waves that need a medium. • Microwaves propagate in straight lines and are affected very little by the troposphere. They are not refracted nor reflected by ionized regions in the upper atmosphere. Microwaves: Uses • Microwaves cause water and fat molecules to vibrate causing them to become hot. This makes it possible to cook food using microwaves thus making your microwave oven. • Mobile phones also use microwaves as they can be generated by a small antenna which makes it possible to manufacture small phones. Network service providers use transmitter towers and the more towers you have the more likely costumers have a better signal. • • Microwaves are also used by fixed traffic speed cameras and the “RADAR” which stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. • Because microwaves have a wide range of frequencies it also implies that there is a wide range of options of meters you can use to measure a given frequency. By: Group 2 • Karl Denver Clarito • Ramon Medel III • Alexis Ligahon • Christlee Ross Montinola • Zion-Grace Rosareal

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GRD 10 PHYSICS - Microwaves Notes

Why Study Microwaves and other Electromagnetic waves? • Microwaves and Radio waves are widely used types of electromagnetic waves due to their wide range of applications especially in the telecommunications sector. They practically connect us all together since they were first used in the times of war. Microwaves: Description • Microwaves are a type of electromagnetic wave. Electromagnetic radiation is transmitted in waves or particles at different wavelengths and frequencies. • This broad range of wavelengths is known as the electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum). It is generally divided into seven regions in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing energy and frequency. • Microwaves have a frequency ranging from about 3 billion cycles per second or 3 gigahertz (GHz) up to about 30 terahertz (THz) and their wavelengths measure from 30 cm to 3 mm. • Like other electromagnetic waves, microwaves can pass through a medium unlike the mechanical waves that need a medium. • Microwaves propagate in straight lines and are affected very little by the troposphere. They are not refracted nor reflected by ionized regions in the upper atmosphere. Microwaves: Uses • Microwaves cause water and fat molecules to vibrate causing them to become hot. This makes it possible to cook food using microwaves thus making your microwave oven. • Mobile phones also use microwaves as they can be generated by a small antenna which makes it possible to manufacture small phones. Network service providers use transmitter towers and the more towers you have the more likely costumers have a better signal. • • Microwaves are also used by fixed traffic speed cameras and the “RADAR” which stands for RAdio Detection And Ranging. • Because microwaves have a wide range of frequencies it also implies that there is a wide range of options of meters you can use to measure a given frequency. By: Group 2 • Karl Denver Clarito • Ramon Medel III • Alexis Ligahon • Christlee Ross Montinola • Zion-Grace Rosareal

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Why Study Microwaves and other Electromagnetic

waves?

Microwaves and Radio waves are widely used types of


electromagnetic waves due to their wide range of
applications especially in the telecommunications
sector. They practically connect us all together since
they were first used in the times of war.

Microwaves: Description
Microwaves are a type of electromagnetic wave.
Electromagnetic radiation is transmitted in waves or
particles at different wavelengths and frequencies.

This broad range of wavelengths is known as the


electromagnetic spectrum (EM spectrum). It is generally
divided into seven regions in order of decreasing
wavelength and increasing energy and frequency.
Microwaves have a frequency ranging from about 3 billion
cycles per second or 3 gigahertz (GHz) up to about 30
terahertz (THz) and their wavelengths measure from 30 cm
to 3 mm.

Like other electromagnetic waves, microwaves can pass


through a medium unlike the mechanical waves that need a
medium.
Microwaves propagate in straight lines and are affected very
little by the troposphere. They are not refracted nor
reflected by ionized regions in the upper atmosphere.

Microwaves: Uses
Microwaves cause water and fat molecules to vibrate
causing them to become hot. This makes it possible to
cook food using microwaves thus making your
microwave oven.

Mobile phones also use microwaves as they can be


generated by a small antenna which makes it possible
to manufacture small phones. Network service
providers use transmitter towers and the more towers
you have the more likely costumers have a better
signal.

Microwaves are also used by fixed traffic speed


cameras and the RADAR which stands for RAdio
Detection And Ranging.
Because microwaves have a wide range of frequencies
it also implies that there is a wide range of options of
meters you can use to measure a given frequency.

By: Group 2

Karl Denver Clarito


Ramon Medel III
Alexis Ligahon
Christlee Ross Montinola
Zion-Grace Rosareal

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