The plate capacitor is charged and discharged with sinusoidally changing electric current. Why does a capacitor emit electromagnetic radiation?

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2022-10-09

The plate capacitor is charged and discharged with sinusoidally changing electric current. Why does a capacitor emit electromagnetic radiation?

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Samantha Braun

Samantha Braun

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A charged particle possesses an electric field and a moving charged particle produces as magnetic field. Charging (and also discharging) the capacitor sinusoidally accelerates the charged particles with a certain frequency ν \nu . This leads to emission of electro-magnetic radiation of energy E = h ν E = h \nu , as the produced magnetic and electric fields caused by the charged particle vary over time. An electro-magnetic wave is nothing else than a temporal and spatial variation of electric and magnetic fields.

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