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Tuesday, May 3, 2011

Electromagnetic Waves!!

By now, you know that electromagnetic waves contain an electric part and a magnetic part.  These parts are called fields and vibrate at right angles to the wave motion.  Why is wireless technology, i.e, cell phones, wireless internet, sensitive to the electric component rather than the magnetic component of electromagnetic waves????
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