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Waves and their Applications in Technologies for Information Transfer: Electromagnetic Radiation
Interaction with Matter
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Interaction with matter
When electromagnetic radiation, such as light, interacts with matter, it can behave in different ways depending on the material it hits. Light can be reflected, absorbed, or transmitted. Reflection happens when light bounces off a surface, like a mirror. Absorption happen...
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Electromagnetic waves can interact with different materials in many ways, like how light bounces off a mirror or changes direction when it passes through water.
They can reflect, meaning they bounce off surfaces, such as sunlight reflecting from a car’s surface.
They can also refract or bend when they move from one material to anothe...
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