Objectives:

After completing this module, students know how electromagnetic waves are produced and how they transport energy and momentum through space.  Students will be able to identify different regions of the EM spectrum and will be able to distinguish between unpolarized and polarized light.

Electromagnetic waves

Study the on-line material:

Review: Physics 221, Traveling waves

• Field energy

• Production of EM waves

The electromagnetic spectrum

Study the on-line material:

• Wave energy and momentum

• The electromagnetic spectrum

• Polarization