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Old March 10th 07, 01:47 PM posted to rec.radio.amateur.antenna
Cecil Moore Cecil Moore is offline
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Default Gaussian statics law

Ian White GM3SEK wrote:
This applies to all forms of EM energy, so let's calculate the 'step
size' in an RF waveform at 10MHz. That will be the energy content of a
single quantum, which turns out to be 0.000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000
0066 joules - which is unimaginably small.


Maybe 40 nano-eV is more imaginable? :-)
For me, it is a lot easier to visualize a cloud
of photons leaving an antenna than it is to visualize
the field lines closing upon themselves (like a soap
bubble) and breaking free of the antenna.

Incidentally, your above number is off by 0.3% :-)
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73, Cecil http://www.w5dxp.com