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How are waves reflected?
How do mobile phones work?
All about... SETI
6 Things you may not know about the afterglow of the big bang
Could your phone harm your health?
Listening to stars twinkle
Nobel-prize winning accidents
How does technology know where in the world we are?
Under Sunveillance
Keep your ears peeled
How do we know how far away the moon is?
How do no-fly zones work?
How does GPS work?
Setting Hearts Aflutter
Time Twins
How does physics help sport?
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
NASA page about electromagnetic waves with descriptions of such waves and their uses.Covers radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet (UV), x-rays and gamma rays.
Radio Transmission
Even today it seems like magic. You turn on your radio and, somehow, sound sent from a distant radio station fills the room. How does radio transmission work?
Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell
This a biography of radio astronomer Susan Jocelyn Bell Burnell, who discovered the first pulsar (stars that release regular bursts of radio waves) in 1967.
How Digital Radio Works
Satellite radio is poised to change the way we listen to music. Find out how digital radio gets from Earth to satellite to you!. From HowStuffWorks.com.
Enlightened
A site from the ThinkQuest competition about light giving brief descriptions of electromagnetic radiation from radio waves and microwaves to x rays and gamma rays.
Electromagnetic Spectrum
A range of resources on the electromagnetic spectrum and the different types of electromagnectic wave, from radio waves to gamma rays.
Tuning a radio receiver
This site shows how a radio is tuned using a variable capacitor connected to a simple antenna transformer circuit. Includes a description of reactance equalization.