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Mobile Phone Faraday Cage

Popular Physics 2015-06-03 v1 Physics Education

Abstract

A Faraday cage is an interesting physics phenomena where an electromagnetic wave can be excluded from a volume of space by enclosure with an electrically conducting material. The practical application of this in the classroom is to block the signal to a mobile phone by enclosing it in a metal can! The background of the physics behind this is described in some detail followed by a explanation of some demonstrations and experiments which I have used.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1112.5495,
  title  = {Mobile Phone Faraday Cage},
  author = {M M J French},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1112.5495},
  year   = {2015}
}
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