DISCOVERY OF

EM WAVES
Lesson 1
The speed of sound through air is about 340 meters per second, while light
will travel through a vacuum at 300 million meters per second.
 WAVE
It is a disturbance in space and time that
repeatedly and progressively propagates
from one point to another.
WAVES ARE CLASSIFIED BASED
ON THE FOLLOWING:
• Direction of Propagation
• Nature of Propagation
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DIRECTION OF
PROPAGATION
 DIRECTION OF PROPAGATION
Transverse Wave
Movement of the particles are
at right angles (perpendicular)
to the motion of the energy.
 DIRECTION OF PROPAGATION

Longitudinal Wave
Movement of the particles are
parallel to the motion of the
energy.
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NATURE OF
PROPAGATION
 NATURE OF PROPAGATION

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MECHANICAL WAVES ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES
are the waves that can It does not require any
travel using a medium material for it to transport the
such as solid, liquid, and energy it carries from one
gas. location to another.
Electromagnetic Waves
● are transverse waves made up of
electric and magnetic fields.

● is produced by moving or
vibrating charged particles
such as an electron.

● All electromagnetic waves travel

at the same speed.

● In a vacuum (space), they travel

at 300,000,000 m/s (3 x 108m/s)
PARTS OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE
PARTS OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE
PARTS OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE
PARTS OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE
PARTS OF A TRANSVERSE WAVE
 Claudius Ptolemy
- Geocentric Isaac Newton
model of the
universe, Light is made of a
refraction of light stream of particles
and color travelling in a straight
phenomena path.

300 BC 100 CE – 170 CE 1629-1695 1643 - 1727 1728

Christiaan Huygens James Bradley

Euclid of Alexandria Wave nature of light. Measured the speed of
He postulated that light (3x108 m/s)
light “coming from
the eye” travels in a
straight line. He also
worked on the
reflection of light.
 1831–1879 1857–1894

James Clerk Maxwell Heinrich Hertz

came up with the theory of discovered radio
electromagnetic waves, electric waves and exhibit
and magnetic fields that induce wave properties
one another as they propagate. similar to that of
He hypothesized that light is an light.
EM wave.