Answer by Phil Frost for How exactly are radio waves produced from a current...
Don't worry about photons unless you want to venture into quantum physics. A photon is the quantum of electromagnetic radiation, which is also a wave. I've yet to find an application in RF engineering...
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Signal power does drop as a square function for E fields because the area covered by the emitted signal increases as a square of the distance, radius.The point about photons, I think... The key is that...
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Radio waves are produced when the electric field rapidly changes: there has to be an alternating current.An electric field spreads out into space. When you change an electric field, the distant parts...
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Radio waves were not explained until James Clerk Maxwell described electricity and magnetism with what are now called Maxwell's Equations. They use a form of vector calculus and are far from simple....
View ArticleHow exactly are radio waves produced from a current in a circuit itself?
I am 17, and I am new to electronics, and I've learned everything online and expect to continue to do so with all the resources. I have dug around and can't find concise answers on this question ......
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