RADIO WAVES

Contents:
1. What are Radio Waves?

2. Discovery

3. Generation and
Reception

4. What do Radio Waves do?

5. Radio Waves in Mobile

Phones

6. Radio Waves in Television

7. WHY ARE RADIO WAVES

IMPORTANT?
What are Radio Waves?

■ Radio waves are a type

of electromagnetic
radiation.
■ They are the longest
type of electromagnetic
waves and travel at the
speed of light.
Discovery
■ Radio waves were first predicted by mathematical work done in
1867 by British mathematical physicist James Clerk Maxwell.
■ Maxwell proposed that light consisted of electromagnetic waves of
very short wave length.
■ In 1887, German physicist Heinrich Hertz demonstrated the reality
of Maxwell's electromagnetic waves by experimentally generating
radio waves in his laboratory, showing that they exhibited the same
wave properties as light.
■ Radio communication began to be used commercially around
1900.
■ The modern term "radio wave" replaced the original name "Hertzian
wave" around 1912.
Generation and Reception

Old Radio Transmitter

Radio Transmitter Shortwave Radio
Receiver
What do Radio Waves do?

■ Radio Waves transmit different sorts of information.

■ This information could be in the form of music ,
pictures or conversation. This is invisible data and is
contained in radio waves.
■ Television and mobile phones are just a couple of
things that use radio waves.
Other examples:
Radio Waves in Mobile
Phones

■ When people use their mobile

phones to call other people,
there is a transmitter which
takes the sound of your voice
and encodes it into
something known as a
continuous sine waves.
■ When the sound has been
encoded on signal to the
antenna, it then sends out
the signal.
Radio Waves in Television
■ Television used many
different radio signals to
transmit a particular channel
and block out the rest of the
channels without
interference.
■ Channels use different
frequencies for the television
to receive the information of
images and sounds.
– Television receive most of
the channels by the use
of antennas.
WHY ARE RADIO WAVES
IMPORTANT?
-people can communicate with
each other from a far distance.
-the biggest use for radio waves is
communication, such as phones,
texts, emails and instant
messaging.
-radio waves are in fact used in
every day life without hesitation.
References:

■ https://www.techwalla.com/articles/m
ain-parts-of-a-tv
■ https://science.nasa.gov/ems/03_beh
aviors
■ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_wa
ve
■ http://blog.sarmento.eng.br/?paged=4