GK
GENERAL SCIENCE
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Question
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what is the contribution of Henrich Hertz in physics?
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electromagnetic wave
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Photo-electric effect
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Thermionic emission
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None of these
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Explanation:
Detailed explanation-1: -Heinrich Hertz was a brilliant German physicist and experimentalist who demonstrated that the electromagnetic waves predicted by James Clerk Maxwell actually exist. Hertz is also the man whose peers honored by attaching his name to the unit of frequency; a cycle per second is one hertz.
Detailed explanation-2: -James Clerk Maxwell was one of the greatest scientists of the nineteenth century. He is best known for the formulation of the theory of electromagnetism and in making the connection between light and electromagnetic waves.
Detailed explanation-3: -It is made possible by a fundamental physical effect discovered by Heinrich Hertz exactly 125 years ago in Karlsruhe: The electromagnetic wave.
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