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The Production of EM Waves: Charged Particle

The document discusses the production of electromagnetic (EM) waves. It explains that an accelerating charged particle produces both an electric field and a magnetic field. The changing electric and magnetic fields then produce each other, leading to EM waves that can propagate through free space as oscillating electric and magnetic fields transporting energy.

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The Production of EM Waves: Charged Particle

The document discusses the production of electromagnetic (EM) waves. It explains that an accelerating charged particle produces both an electric field and a magnetic field. The changing electric and magnetic fields then produce each other, leading to EM waves that can propagate through free space as oscillating electric and magnetic fields transporting energy.

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Vacuum engineering and applied physics on the other hand, vacuum refers to any space in

which the pressure is lower than atmospheric pressure.

The Production of EM waves


 A charged particle produces an electric field. This electric field
exerts a force on other charged particles. Positive charges accelerate
in the direction of the field and negative charges accelerate in a
direction opposite to the direction of the field.
 A moving charged particle produces a magnetic field. This magnetic
field exerts a force on other moving charges. The force on these
charges is always perpendicular to the direction of their velocity and
therefore only changes the direction of the velocity, not the speed.
 An accelerating charged particle produces an electromagnetic (EM)
wave. Electromagnetic waves are electric and magnetic fields
traveling through empty space with the speed of light c. A charged
particle oscillating about an equilibrium position is an accelerating
charged particle. If its frequency of oscillation is f, then it produces
an electromagnetic wave with frequency f. The wavelength λ of this
wave is given by λ = c/f. Electromagnetic waves transport energy
through space. This energy can be delivered to charged particles a
large distance away from the source.

Accelerating charges produce changing electric and magnetic


fields. Changing electric fields produce magnetic fields and changing
magnetic fields produce electric fields. This interplay between induced
electric and magnetic fields leads to propagating electromagnetic
waves. Electromagnetic waves can propagate through free space.

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