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How are waves reflected?
How do mobile phones work?
What is superposition?
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 Radio Scanners Work
A brief description of how Radio Scanners work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
Building a Simple Crystal Radio
A set of instructions for building a crystal radio at home, includes photos to help.
Transverse and longitudinal waves.
Gives definitions of transverse and longitudinal waves with animation consisting of words moving to show how waves move in a medium.
How Radio Controlled Toys Work
A brief description of how Radio Controlled Toys work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
AM Radio
AM radio uses the electrical image of a sound source to modulate the amplitude of a carrier wave. At the receiver end in the detection process, that image is stripped back off the carrier and turned ...
Fm Radio
FM radio uses the electrical image of a sound source to modulate the frequency of a carrier wave. At the receiver end in the detection process, that image is stripped back off the carrier and turned ...
How the Radio Spectrum Works
A very brief description of how the Radio Spectrum works from HowStuffWorks.com.
Waves and wave motion
An introduction to longitudinal and transverse waves, and period and frequency.
Travelling waves
Introductory page linking to more information on various aspects of traveling waves