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Re: Helical Antenna "Spin" Determination?Polarization is a hard thing to understand. Transverse waves like EM radiation (i.e radio -> microwave -> infrared -> light -> xray -> gamma radiation) have more complicated mathematical formalism than the longitudinal waves of sound.I was 20 years old and had talked myself into an internship at an optical materials lab group at Penn State, having never had a formal class on anything in optics. I spent many evenings in the lounge of my Penn State dorm working to digest the classic introductory text for this topic "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by Griffiths.Now, more than a decade later, I have two friends with PhDs in antenna design, and I (mostly) manage to not embarrass myself with them because of that time at Penn State.
Re: Helical Antenna "Spin" Determination?
Polarization is a hard thing to understand. Transverse waves like EM radiation (i.e radio -> microwave -> infrared -> light -> xray -> gamma radiation) have more complicated mathematical formalism than the longitudinal waves of sound.
I was 20 years old and had talked myself into an internship at an optical materials lab group at Penn State, having never had a formal class on anything in optics. I spent many evenings in the lounge of my Penn State dorm working to digest the classic introductory text for this topic "Introduction to Electrodynamics" by Griffiths.
Now, more than a decade later, I have two friends with PhDs in antenna design, and I (mostly) manage to not embarrass myself with them because of that time at Penn State.
