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Hi,
For an assignment at school I am looking into the behaviors of microwave propagation. For instance I have familiarized myself with Fraunhoffer diffraction (Single slit, Double slit and grating) and an amount of wave mechanics in general.
What I would like to do however is to link all this very 'nice' theoretical behavior of waves, to a real life situation. The real life situation that I originally began with was microwave propagation in the household. Approx 2.4ghz from microwave oven, Wifi, cordless phones etc. I can investigate all sorts of things like the drop-off of intensity with the square of distance but I'm struggling to find an area I can investigate that unifies what you would learn in a beginners physics textbook, and the seemingly chaotic EM behavior in the real world, for instance the interference at said wavelength.
I was thinking that I could describe microwave propagation in the environment (diffraction, reflection, etc.) and almost make a 'radar' to find given shapes etc. using a microwave source situated at one end, and then a microwave detector at the other to find interference patterns.
What materials would give fairly consistent and predictable behavior/interaction with microwaves?
Are there any other technologies that I could look into/be of interest other than a simple box source and a horn receiver?
Thanks for any help/suggestions :) :)
For an assignment at school I am looking into the behaviors of microwave propagation. For instance I have familiarized myself with Fraunhoffer diffraction (Single slit, Double slit and grating) and an amount of wave mechanics in general.
What I would like to do however is to link all this very 'nice' theoretical behavior of waves, to a real life situation. The real life situation that I originally began with was microwave propagation in the household. Approx 2.4ghz from microwave oven, Wifi, cordless phones etc. I can investigate all sorts of things like the drop-off of intensity with the square of distance but I'm struggling to find an area I can investigate that unifies what you would learn in a beginners physics textbook, and the seemingly chaotic EM behavior in the real world, for instance the interference at said wavelength.
I was thinking that I could describe microwave propagation in the environment (diffraction, reflection, etc.) and almost make a 'radar' to find given shapes etc. using a microwave source situated at one end, and then a microwave detector at the other to find interference patterns.
What materials would give fairly consistent and predictable behavior/interaction with microwaves?
Are there any other technologies that I could look into/be of interest other than a simple box source and a horn receiver?
Thanks for any help/suggestions :) :)