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Introduction to Radiowaves

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In 1865 James Clerk Maxwell introduced the notion of electromagnetic (EM) waves propagating with constant speed in homogenous media, based on relations between varying electric and magnetic fields. The speed of EM waves in free space corresponds to the speed of light and is equal to 3 × 108 m/s.

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  1. Tarhe Ertebatat Telecom Consultants, Tehran, Iran

    Abdollah Ghasemi

  2. University of Maine, Orono, Maine, USA

    Ali Abedi

  3. Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

    Farshid Ghasemi

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Ghasemi, A., Abedi, A., Ghasemi, F. (2016). Introduction to Radiowaves. In: Propagation Engineering in Wireless Communications. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32783-9_1

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