A receiver that is a 1000 km from a radio wave transmitter records an intensity of 2000 W/m2 for incident radio waves. (a) What is the power of radio waves emitted by the transmitter? (b) What is the peak electric field strength of the received radio wave? (c) What is its peak magnetic field strength?

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A receiver that is a 1000 km from a radio wave transmitter records an intensity of 2000 W/m2
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incident radio waves.
(a) What is the power of radio waves emitted by the transmitter?

(b) What is the peak electric field strength of the received radio wave?

(c) What is its peak magnetic field strength? 

(d) Determine the wavelength of a 30 MHz radio wave, now travelling in water (speed of EM
waves in water = 2.26 x 108 m/s).  

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