Gian Louie N.

Mateo Medical Physics

BS Psychology Assignment #3
Electromagnetic Waves
(ANSWER SHEET)

1. Magnetron generates high-frequency radio waves. Duplexer switches magnetron

through to antenna. Antenna acts as transmitter, sending narrow beam of radio
waves through the air. Radio waves hit an airplane and reflects back.

2. Remote sensing is the acquisition of information about an object or phenomenon

without making physical contact with the object and thus in contrast to on-site
observation, especially the Earth. Remote sensing is used in numerous fields,
including geography, land surveying and most Earth science disciplines (for
example, hydrology, ecology, meteorology, oceanography, glaciology, geology);
it also has military, intelligence, commercial, economic, planning, and
humanitarian applications.

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4. The sun emits electromagnetic radiation at different wavelengths. The ozone in

the ozone layer absorbs 97-99% of all the ultraviolet light that passes into the
stratosphere.

5. The radio "receives" these electromagnetic radio waves and converts them to
mechanical vibrations in the speaker to create the sound waves you can hear.

6. If its frequency of oscillation is f, then it produces an electromagnetic wave with

frequency ... Accelerating charges produce changing electric and magnetic fields.
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8. All objects emit electromagnetic radiation, and the amount of radiation emitted
at each wavelength determines the temperature of the object. Hot objects emit
more of their light at short wavelengths, and cold objects emit more of their light
at long wavelengths.

9. Dense tissues like bone absorb X-rays so these show as white on the
photographic plate. They can be used for some soft tissue investigations like
looking for lung disease. X-rays are a form of ionizing radiation – radiation that
has enough energy to shift electrons out of atoms and so produce ions.

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