Lambda:4 | Analysis of radio wave fields

Waves are harmony

Physicists also like to call a wave „a harmonic oscillation “and mean by this the run of the sine wave of the “wave surface“.

Waves are chaos

If many waves run in shambles such as in an intensely frequented swimming pool it appears chaotic to people and no longer predictable.

But waves are profoundly predictable and the related mathematical methods were extensively researched last century.

With modern small sized computers even complex wave fields can be mathematically analyzed today.

Radio waves are mystical - high frequency is magic

... quite a popular belief.

This is surely due to „the invisibility“ of radio waves whose existence was proven in the year 1888 by Heinrich Hertz.

Particularly for high frequency radio waves the assumed incalculability plays a decisive role. A mobile phone operates well at a place and a few inches further there is a damn “dead spot“.

For experts there is still another difference to most other forms of waves: Radio waves have a polarization. This makes it harder to analyse a wave field than, for example, acoustic waves – however it is very advantageous for various applications.