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K12 Standards

Pennsylvania State Academic Standards

9-12

Physical Science

Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation

3.2.9-12.V

The Electromagnetic Spectrum

El espectro electromagnético es la distribución de las ondas electromagnéticas según su longitud de onda o frecuencia. Incluye ondas de radio, microondas, radiación infrarroja, luz visible, rayos ultravioleta, rayos X y rayos gamma.
Las ondas de radio tienen la longitud de onda más larga del espectro, que va desde milímetros hasta kilómetros. Son generados por cargas eléctricas aceleradas y actúan como portadores para transmitir información.
Un horno de microondas produce microondas que calientan los alimentos.
Las superficies calentadas emiten radiación infrarroja. Los mandos a distancia utilizan radiación infrarroja de longitud de onda de alrededor de 0,9 micrómetros.
Una bombilla incandescente emite radiación visible con longitudes de onda que oscilan entre 0,4 y 0,7 micrómetros.
Los rayos ultravioleta de longitud de onda de alrededor de 0,35 micrómetros se utilizan para matar insectos.
Las fuentes de rayos X de alta frecuencia son transiciones intraatómicas. Los rayos X de longitud de onda de alrededor de 1 x 10-4 micrómetros se utilizan para escanear los huesos.
Los rayos gamma se emiten durante la desintegración nuclear. La radioterapia utiliza rayos gamma.

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el espectro electromagnético

Las ondas electromagnéticas se categorizan de acuerdo con sus longitudes de onda y frecuencias, formando el espectro electromagnético. Estas ondas se clasifican como radio, infrarrojo, ultravioleta, etc. Las ondas de radio se refieren a la radiación electromagnética con longitudes de onda que van desde milímetros hasta kilómetros. Las ondas de radio se utilizan comúnmente para comunicaciones de audio (es decir, radios) y generalmente resultan de una corriente alterna en los cables de una antena de transmisión. Cubren un amplio rango de longitudes de onda y se utilizan para radio AM (modulación de amplitud) y FM (modulación de frecuencia), telefonía celular y señales de televisión. Las microondas son las ondas electromagnéticas de mayor frecuencia, producidas por corrientes en circuitos y dispositivos macroscópicos. Las frecuencias de microondas van desde aproximadamente 109 Hz hasta casi 1012 Hz. La mayoría de la información transmitida por satélite se lleva en microondas. El radar es una aplicación común de las microondas. Al detectar y medir los ecos de las microondas, los sistemas de radar pueden determinar la distancia a objetos tan diversos como nubes, aviones o incluso la superficie de Venus. La radiación infrarroja se produce generalmente por el movimiento térmico y la vibración y rotación de átomos y moléculas. Aproximadamente la mitad de la energía solar que llega a la Tierra está en la región infrarroja, siendo la mayor parte en la parte visible del espectro. Los satélites de reconocimiento pueden detectar edificios, vehículos e incluso humanos individuales por sus emisiones infrarrojas. La luz visible es el segmento estrecho del espectro electromagnético al cual responde el ojo humano normal. Usualmente nos referimos a la luz visible como teniendo longitudes de onda entre 400 nm y 750 nm. Los rayos X se producen por transiciones intraatómicas y colisiones rápidas. Se utilizan para obtener imágenes de objetos que son opacos a la luz visible, como el cuerpo humano o partes de aviones. Los rayos gamma se producen durante la desintegración nuclear y tienen la frecuencia más alta en el espectro electromagnético.

El espectro electromagnético

Las ondas electromagnéticas se clasifican según sus longitudes de onda y frecuencias, lo que da el espectro electromagnético. Estas ondas se clasifican como ...

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Electromagnetic Waves

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KEY TERMS AND CONCEPTS

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electromagnetic waves in everyday technology

Electromagnetic waves are grouped by wavelength and frequency. This set of waves is called the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, X-rays, and gamma rays.

Radio waves have wavelengths from millimeters to kilometers. They are often used for audio communication, such as radios. In many cases, they come from alternating current in the wires of a broadcast antenna. Radio waves also carry AM and FM radio, cellular phone signals, and TV signals.

Microwaves are the highest-frequency electromagnetic waves. They are produced by currents in macroscopic circuits and devices. Their frequencies range from about 10^9 Hz to nearly 10^12 Hz. Most satellite-transmitted information is carried in microwaves, and radar is a common use. Radar measures the time of microwave echoes to find the distance to objects such as clouds, aircraft, or even the surface of Venus.

Infrared radiation is usually produced by thermal motion and by the vibration and rotation of atoms and molecules. About half of the solar energy that reaches Earth is in the infrared region. Most of the rest is in visible light. Infrared emissions can also be used by reconnaissance satellites to detect buildings, vehicles, and even individual humans.

Visible light is the narrow part of the spectrum that the normal human eye can detect. It has wavelengths between about 400 nm and 750 nm. X-rays come from intra-atomic transitions and fast collisions. They can image objects that are opaque to visible light, such as the human body or aircraft parts. Gamma rays are produced during nuclear decay and have the highest frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum.

Electromagnetic Waves in Everyday Technology

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Maxwell’s Equations Behind EM Waves

Maxwell’s equations explain how electric and magnetic fields work together to create electromagnetic waves. James Clerk Maxwell brought together the ideas of Oersted, Coulomb, Gauss, and Faraday and built a single theory of electromagnetism. Together with the Lorentz force law, his equations describe the laws of electricity and magnetism. A key part of Maxwell’s work is the symmetry in the equations. Faraday’s law shows that a changing magnetic field produces an electric field. Maxwell added...

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Hertz's Spark Gaps and Radio Waves

Heinrich Hertz used sparks and tuned circuits to show that electromagnetic waves could be produced in the lab. Starting in 1887, the German physicist ran experiments that confirmed electromagnetic waves exist and travel at the speed of light. Hertz built an alternating-current RLC circuit. RLC stands for resistor, inductor, and capacitor. The circuit was set to a known resonant frequency and connected to a loop of wire. High voltage across the gap in the loop created sparks. Those sparks gave...

the electromagnetic spectrum

Electromagnetic waves are grouped by wavelength and frequency. This set of waves is called the electromagnetic spectrum. It includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, X-rays, and gamma rays. Radio waves have wavelengths from millimeters to kilometers. They are often used for audio communication, such as radios. In many cases, they come from alternating current in the wires of a broadcast antenna. Radio waves also carry AM and FM radio, cellular phone signals, and TV signals. <br...

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How Maxwell Linked Light to Waves

Maxwell's equations show how electric and magnetic fields behave in a vacuum, or empty space. They are written as differential equations and describe fields created by source charges, whether the charges are still or moving. These fields also act on a test charge, and its motion can be found with the right boundary conditions. The key question in empty space is what happens when there are no source charges. In the vacuum form of Maxwell's four equations, the first-order partial differential...

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Transverse Fields in Electromagnetic Waves

Electromagnetic waves are made of electric and magnetic fields that move through space together. Maxwell's equations predict these waves, and they can travel in free space without a medium. The electric field acts on a stationary charge, while the magnetic field acts on a moving charge. For a wave traveling along the x-axis, the fields are written as Ey(x, t) and Bz(x, t). In free space, there are no free charges or currents, so the charge enclosed and current terms in Maxwell's equations are...

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Faraday’s Law in a Plane Wave

Faraday’s law can be used to link the electric and magnetic fields in a plane electromagnetic wave. Here, the wavefront moves in the x-direction at a constant speed. The goal is to show how the field strengths must be related for the wave to stay consistent with Faraday’s law. To apply the law, a rectangle of width a is placed with its area vector in the positive z-direction. The line integral is taken counterclockwise around the rectangle. One side lies outside the wavefront, so the electric...

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Maxwell’s Equations and Light Speed

Electromagnetic waves follow Ampere’s law when there is no conduction current. A plane wavefront moves in the positive x-direction. To analyze it, a rectangle is placed in the xz-plane with its area vector pointing in the positive y-direction. The line integral around the rectangle is taken counterclockwise. The magnetic field is zero on some sides and perpendicular on others. It is parallel to one side, and that side gives a non-zero contribution to the integral. Because the left side of...

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How Light Slows in Materials

Electromagnetic waves can travel through matter as well as through vacuum. Light is one example. It can move through air, water, or glass. When an electromagnetic wave passes through a dielectric medium, the equations that describe it change. In Ampere's law, the permittivity of free space, ε0, is replaced by the permittivity of the dielectric, ε. The vacuum permeability, μ0, is also replaced by the permeability of the medium, μ. The wave speed c in vacuum is then replaced by a lower speed, v,...

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How EM Waves Transfer Energy

Electromagnetic waves transfer energy through their electric and magnetic fields. This energy can be easy to notice, like the warmth from the summer sun, or harder to feel, like the energy in gamma rays that can damage living cells. The fields in an electromagnetic wave can exert forces on charges in a system. They can move those charges and do work on them. Even if a wave is not absorbed right away, it still carries energy away from its source. If some of the wave energy is absorbed, the...

intensity of electromagnetic waves

Poynting Vector and Light Intensity

The Poynting vector describes the energy flux of an electromagnetic wave. It tells how much energy passes through a unit area in a unit time at a specific moment. For a plane electromagnetic wave moving along the x-axis, the energy flux depends on the peak electric field E0 and the peak magnetic field B0. For high-frequency waves, the energy flux changes very quickly with time. Visible light has a frequency on the order of 10^14 Hz, so its energy flux varies too fast to track directly. Most...

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Radiation Pressure in Light and Comets

Radiation pressure is the force that electromagnetic waves can exert on matter. It appears because light carries momentum, so an object that absorbs a wave feels a push in the direction the wave travels. This same force helps explain why sunlight can affect small particles in space. Maxwell predicted radiation pressure, and Nichols and Hull confirmed it in 1903. They used a torsion balance with mirrors suspended from a fiber inside a glass container. When they shone light on one mirror, the...

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Radiation Pressure in Light and Space

Radiation pressure is the push that light can exert on matter. When an electromagnetic wave is completely absorbed by a surface, its energy density is transferred as momentum to that surface. The rate of momentum transfer on a surface perpendicular to the wave gives the force, and the force per unit area is the radiation pressure. A perfectly absorbing surface receives this pressure directly from the incoming wave. If the surface is perfectly reflecting, such as a metal surface, and the light...

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Electromagnetic Wave Reflection at Conductors

Electromagnetic waves can reflect from a conductor or a dielectric. When the reflected wave combines with the incoming wave, the result is a standing electromagnetic wave. This is similar to the standing waves formed on a stretched string. To see how this happens, consider a perfect conductor placed in the yz-plane. A linearly polarized electromagnetic wave moving in the negative x-direction strikes the surface. The electric field cannot have a component parallel to the surface of a perfect...

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Electromagnetic Modes in a Microwave Cavity

Electromagnetic waves can form standing patterns inside a cavity. Household microwaves and lasers are common examples of this effect. When two conducting metal plates are placed parallel at the nodal planes, they create a space where standing waves can exist. The cavity between the plates works like a stretched string fixed at x = 0 and x = L. The distance L must be an integer multiple of half a wavelength. The wavelengths that meet this condition have matching frequencies, and each frequency,...

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Explore how radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, X-rays, and gamma rays are used in communication, imaging, radar, and detection.

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JoVE Core Física presenta la teoría y la aplicación de conceptos físicos fundamentales, como la cinemática, dinámica, mecánica de fluidos, estática, ondas y acústica, mediante animaciones audiovisuales concisas y fáciles de entender. Además, los vídeos de científicos en acción muestran la aplicación de los conceptos relacionados en experimentos de investigación clásicos y originales, realizados en laboratorios de todo el mundo.

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Louisiana Student Standards for Science

High School

Waves And Their Applications

HS-PS4-4

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Waves And Their Applications In Technologies For Information Transfer

HS-PS4-1

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Ohio’s Learning Standards and Model Curriculum

Energy And Waves

Waves

Light phenomena

Tennessee Academic Standards

Waves and Their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer

PHYS.PS4.5

Virginia  Standards of Learning

HIgh School

PS.7

PS.7.b

PH.5

PH.5.c

PH.6

PH.6.a

PH.6.b

Minnesota Academic Standards in Science

3.2.2 9P.3.1.1.2

4.2.1 9P.3.2.2.1

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New Jersey Student Learning Standards for Science

HS-PS4-5

Arizona Science Standards

HS.P4

HS.P4U1.10

Alabama Course of Study Science

Earth and Space Science

Earth's Place in the Universe

9-12.ESS.1.2.b

9-12.ESS.1.2.c

9-12.ESS.1.3.a

9-12.P.3.7.c

Next Generation Science Standards

HS-PS4-2

HS-PS4-3

Earth’s Place in the Universe

HS-ESS1-1

Florida Department of Education

SC.912.P.10

SC.912.P.10.16

SC.912.P.10.17

SC.912.P.10.18

Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills

PHYS.8

PHYS.8.E

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South Carolina College and Career Ready Science Standards

P-PS4-2

P-PS4-3

P-PS4-5

Earth and Space Science (ESS)

E-ESS1-1.

E-ESS1-2.

Earth’s Systems

E-ESS2-2.

E-ESS2-4.

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New York State Science Learning Standards

HS. Waves and Electromagnetic Radiation

HS-PS4-4.

Earth and Space Sciences

Space Systems

HS-ESS1-1.

HS-ESS1-2.

Georgia Standards of Excellence

Astronomy

SAST2

SAST1.2

SP4.

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Mechanical and Electromagnetic Waves Properties

Travelling Waves

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Equations of Wave Motion

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Graphing the Wave Function

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Energy and Power of a Wave

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Students who demonstrate understanding can use mathematical representations to support a claim regarding relationships among the frequency, wavelength, and speed of waves traveling in various media. Clarifying Statement: Examples of data could include electromagnetic radiation traveling in a vacuum and glass, sound waves traveling through air and water, and seismic waves traveling through the Earth. Assessment Boundry: Assessment is limited to algebraic relationships and describing those relationships qualitatively.

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Sound Waves: Interference

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Sound Waves: Resonance

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Electromagnetic Wave Equation

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Propagation Speed of Electromagnetic Waves

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Electromagnetic Waves in Matter

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Energy Carried By Electromagnetic Waves

Anyone who has used a microwave oven knows there is energy in electromagnetic waves. Sometimes, this energy is obvious, such as in the summer sun&#39;s ...

Intensity Of Electromagnetic Waves

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Students who demonstrate understanding can evaluate the claims, evidence, and reasoning behind the idea that electromagnetic radiation can be described either by a wave model or a particle model and that for some situations one model is more useful than the other.  Clarifying Statement: Emphasis is on how the experimental evidence supports the claim and how a theory is generally modified in light of new evidence.  Examples of a phenomenon could include resonance, interference, diffraction, and photoelectric effect.  Assessment Boundry: Assessment does not include using quantum theory.

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