Magnetic field, plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation

Plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation showing the electric field, the magnetic field, and the direction of propagation. 

Figure 18-1 Plane-polarized electromagnetic radiation of wavelength A, propagating along the x-axis. The electric field oscillates in the xy-plane and the magnetic field oscillates in the xz-plane. Ordinary, unpolarized light has electric and magnetic field components in all planes.

Figure 24-1 Wave nature of a beam of single-frequency electromagnetic radiation. In (a), a plane-polarized wave is shown propagating along the y-axis. The electric field oscillates in a plane perpendicular to the magnetic field. If the radiation were unpolarized, a component of the electric field would be seen in all planes. In (b), only the electric field oscillations are shown. The amplitude of the wave is the length of the electric field vector at the wave maximum, while the wavelength is the distance between successive maxima.

Fig. 2. An Illustration of Electromagnetic Radiation can be imagined as a self-propaj ting transverse oscillating wave of electric and magnetic fields. This diagram shows a plane linearly polarized wave propagating from left to light. The electric field is in a vertical plane (E) blue and the magnetic field in a horizontal plane (M) red...

Thus, electromagnetic radiation from an oscillator coil oriented at 90° to the direction of the fixed magnetic field introduces circularly polarized radiation into the sample volume in the proper plane for absorption by sample nuclei. Only the magnetic compo-... 

Fig. 12.36 Electromagnetic radiation consists of a wave of electric and magnetic fields perpendicular to the direction of propagation (in this case thex-direction) and mutually perpendicular to each other. This illustration shows a plane-polarized wave, with the electric and magnetic fields oscillating in the xy and xz planes, respectively.

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