I feel you, one would think that the purpose of reading these textbooks is precisely so that one is NOT left to sort out what is what on their own and waste time re-inventing the wheel.
As I suspected, this means that all the popular visual representations of EM Radiation (as waves or...
What is the difference between EM Waves and EM Pulses and how are they related to one another? When trying to look up info on this, I always get a full article on either just one or the other so that no comparison is ever made between one and the other, the definitions alone seem a little...