PhET Simulation: Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields Feature Summary

Type:
Physics at Home
Title:
PhET Simulation: Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields
Description:
Security note:
Once you have clicked on the "simulation" link below, be sure to read the Java Security Advisory before running the simulation: To do that, click the "Read now" button on the yellow band near the top of the PhET page.

Shake a charged particle, and it radiates electromagnetic waves. You can try this out with the PhET Simulation: Radio Waves & Electromagnetic Fields. Compare with Physics in Your World above.

To learn more, check out these Physics 2000
webpages.

(This feature was updated on May 5, 2013.)
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