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The soprano sings at the Metropolitan Opera at Lincoln Center in New York, and the performance is broadcast by National Public Radio. Back at home you take off your Gucci slippers, relax in your hot tub and listen to the performance. How does it work? One thing you know for sure—the sound is not transmitted from the Met to you as an acoustical wave. Instead, the sound is transmitted as a radio wave, a form of electromagnetic radiation.
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Hartmann, W.M. (2013). Broadcasting. In: Principles of Musical Acoustics. Undergraduate Lecture Notes in Physics. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6786-1_21
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