Wednesday, April 10, 2019

Listening to the "Radio"

In yet another exemplar of the inadequacies of language, the fact that the device that decodes radio frequency communication into sound waves is also called a "radio" leads to a common misunderstanding.  Every year I walk students through this, but I've made a graphic (assembled from various pics gathered from the internet in full disclosure) to show what is going on.

Two different types of waves here, people!





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