EBK COLLEGE PHYSICS
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Author: Knight
Publisher: PEARSON CO
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Chapter 25, Problem 20CQ
Old-fashioned roof-mounted television antennas were designed to pick up signals across a broad frequency range. Explain why these antennas had metal bars of many different lengths.
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