#ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIANT ENERGY EXAMPLES FREE#

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#ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIANT ENERGY EXAMPLES FREE#

You are free to use the materials in any manner you wish. Interspersed in JetStream are 'Learning Lessons' which can be used to enhance the educational experience. The information contained in JetStream is arranged by subject, beginning with global and large-scale weather patterns followed by lessons on air masses, wind patterns, cloud formations, thunderstorms, lightning, hail, damaging winds, tornados, tropical storms, cyclones, and flooding. Credit: Jeff Schmaltz, Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) Land Rapid Response Team, National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Goddard Space Flight Center (GSFC). High resolution version of this NASA image: select link to enlarge image (~2 mb). As the winds are diverted around the high areas, turbulence is created, and the disturbance in the flow continues downstream in the form of rows of vortices that alternate their direction of rotation. In this case, driving wind rushes past the tall peaks on the rugged Canary Islands.

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The Positive and Negative Side of Lightning The energy of electromagnetic waves this includes radio, microwave, infrared, visible, ultraviolet, x-ray, and gamma waves.

The microwave oven works with the concept of radiant energy (electromagnetic waves). For example, when micro-waves (which forms part of the entire spectrum) are set-off in a microwave oven, the water molecules in the food are charged and caused to vibrate billions of times per second, generating heat that causes the food to cook.

When radiant energy comes into contact with matter, it changes the properties of that matter. In the illustration above, you will see the different radiant energy levels represented by their wavelengths. White light, for example, is a form of radiant energy, and its frequency forms a tiny bit of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The shorter the wavelength, the higher its frequency, and vice versa. The entire wave system from the lowest frequency to the highest frequency is known as the electromagnetic spectrum. There are different kinds of electromagnetic waves, and all of them have different wavelengths, properties, frequencies, and power, and all interact with matter differently. The energy in the electromagnetic waves is what we call radiant energy.

These waves resemble the ripple (mechanical) waves you see when you drop a rock into a swimming pool, but with electromagnetic waves, you do not see them, but you often can see the effect of it. Now, the electrical field induced causes waves, called electromagnetic waves, and they can travel through a vacuum (air), particles or solids. That is possible by electromagnetic waves.īefore we go any further, let us understand what electromagnetic waves are.Įach time static energy from electric and magnetic force comes together, they induce an electric field around them.Īn example of an electric static force is the shock you get when you hold a metal doorknob.Īn example of a magnetic force is the pull that attracts metals to the magnet. The sun’s heat is not transmitted through any solid medium but a vacuum. For example, we receive the heat from the sun, which is located very far from the earth via radiation. It is a form of energy that can travel through space. Radiant energy is the energy of electromagnetic waves.

Electromagnetic radiant energy examples