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Science & Technology Q&A for Kids (and others) [May 13, 2022]

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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The Role of Accelerated Charges in Radio

A radio antenna like the one you'll find in a phone is basically every like a billion times a second, it's reversing the voltage. So emits electromagnetic radiation. And that's how radio fundamentally works. You take a charge like an electron and it's in a wire and you are with a voltage, you're making an electron go, oops, going that way on the wire.

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