I cannot for the life of me properly understand waves and energy in physics, no matter how many definitions and explanations I come across.
I can do calculations with all of these things, but I have trouble understanding what they represent in reality. Can I touch a wave? Is a wave a physical thing like an object, that moves up and down? Ditto for energy.
The definitions of these things are kinda unhelpful. Defining wave as “thing that transfers energy” doesn’t tell me what that *thing* is, for example; it just tells me something about the thing.
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All energy and all matter acts as a particle AND a wave. The lower frequencies act more as particles and the higher frequencies act more as waves. You can touch them sure, your mind can sense LOTS of them. You can feel the heat from the sun but you can’t feel X-rays because your mind is only capable of sensing a small range of energies. We can see some energy in the form of light but not very much.As for electromagnetic waves the positive electric forces repel the positive magnetic forces and the energy moves up but as that positive energy repels each other the negative energies attract them back and they come back together and thus they self propagate through space forever repelling and attracting the energy.
Energy and Mass can be thought of as the same thing and it is just how we perceive the two(our minds) and our brains limited ability to sense everything happening around us that lead to misconceptions and confusions. [https://w4hfh.org/em-wave-spectrum-professor-matt-anderson-phd](https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=video&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjx_s_GjaH2AhXiN30KHdgCBwAQtwJ6BAgCEAI&url=https%3A%2F%2Fw4hfh.org%2Fem-wave-spectrum-professor-matt-anderson-phd&usg=AOvVaw1SjPzDdano9P77OcuwCuyj)that video is ok but might be advanced if it isI would look into the history of electric and how we identified it and the history of magnetism and when you look through history you can put the puzzle pieces together the way society has over the last couple thousand years or so. look into how Erwin Schrödinger combined theories to make the electromagnetic theory and how people like Maxwell describe the two and then look at the scientists that describe electric and magnetism before them. Matter acts as energy and through fusion and fission energy and mass convert into each other.
other simpler videos than the one above is by one of my fav illustrators is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io-HXZTepH4](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Io-HXZTepH4)that might not be the video you want to start with…it might be…but that author has plenty of videos that explain physics in a very slow methodical nature.
anyone that studies quantum anything but especially physics knows that we really don’t know much (which goes against the nature of explain like im 5 because you can’t speak on something you don’t KNOW) but in quantum physics we know that we just don’t know what is really going on but we have some VERY powerful theories that help predict and explain a lot of the universe even if they aren’t 100% true. And that is why you can do the calculations without fully understanding where they were derived from.
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