Name: ______________________________________ Date: ____________ Score: _______

Year and Section: _____________________________ Teacher: ________________________

Activity No. ___

Electromagnetic Waves and

Radio Communication
Introduction
Today’s society has become increasingly dependent on communication networks.
Thus, technologies are coping up to search and create more reliable and efficient
communication systems like wireless communications and the like. Radio and satellites
are examples of wireless communication. They operate without wires between transmitter
and the receiver; instead, communication takes place through Electromagnetic waves.

Objectives

 Enumerate the different scientists who contributed to the development of wireless

communication
 Describe the elements of radio communication

Concepts
 An electromagnetic wave consists of mutually perpendicular electric and magnetic
fields which vary in time and space.
 Radio communication is the transfer of information between two or more points
by the modulation of electromagnetic waves.

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  The elements of radio communication system are the modulator, amplifier,
broadcast tower, antenna, tuner, tuner, demodulator, and receiver.

Activities
A. Complete the crossword puzzle by using the clues provided.

Across Down
4. first name of Morse 1. a machine that encodes dots and dashes
7. first name of Marconi 2. using no wires
8. discovered wireless communication 3. accepting messages
9. sending of messages
5. cryptography system used by the telegraph
10. first name of Hertz
6. sending and receiving messages
11. invented telegraph

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B. 1. Arranged the jumbled letters to form word/s about radio communication. Write
your answer on the space provided.

1. R T O M U D A L O 2. T R D M U L A O E D
________________________ ________________________
3. F A L I M P R E 4. C E R V I E R E
________________________ ________________________
5. B C A T R A D S O W R T O E 6. N I O T A L U D O M
_________________________ ________________________
7. T A N A E N N 8. N D W I B A H T
________________________ ________________________
9. T E R U N 10. O D I A R R C A I R E R E A E V W
________________________ ________________________

2. Identify the terms being described in each sentence. Use the arranged words in
activity B1 as word bank for your answers below. Write your answer on the space
provided.

________________ 1. Picks out the desired frequency.

________________ 2. Increases the energy carried by the wave.

________________ 3. Generates radio waves that travel into space.

________________ 4. This receives signals from the broadcast tower.

________________ 5. The electrical signals bearing the information or sound.

________________ 6. This is where signals and fixed frequency carriers are fed.

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 ________________ 7. Extracts the original sound wave from the transmitted
signal
________________ 8. Converts the electrical signal into physical vibrations or
sound

________________ 9. The amount of information in a signal that determines the

maximum frequency it contains.

________________ 10. The process by which the carrier wave is changed or in

relation to the original pitch and loudness of sound

C. Elements of Radio Communication. Fill out the missing information.

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Name: ______________________________________ Date: ____________ Score: _______

Year and Section: _____________________________ Teacher: ________________________

Activity No. ___

Early Development in Electronics

Introduction
Many scientists have contributed to the development of Electronics. Without these
scientists, electronic components like TV and radio sets, digital watches and clocks,
calculators and microcomputers, and many other electronic household devices would not
have been made possible.

Objectives

 Enumerate the different scientists who contributed to the early development of

Electronics
 Describe the early inventions in Electronics.

Concepts
 Electronics is the branch of physics that deals with the emission, behaviour, and
effects of electrons and with electronic devices.

 The invention of transistor provided the first of a series of devices for expanding
the utility of electronic equipment.

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 Activities
1. Identify the concepts and scientists describe in each item, and then arrange the letters
inside the circles to form the super words.

1. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Its ability to conduct electricity lies between those of conductors and insulators

2. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
They are fragile and ultimately wear out in service; they also take time to heat up
to operating temperature

3. __ __ __ __ __
A process in which there is an addition of impurity atoms(Group III and V) on
semiconductors

4. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
It is the result of the emission of electrons from the cathode

5. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Three- terminal devices used as amplifiers and switches

6. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
The scientist who used his cloud chamber to measure the charge of an electron

7. __ __ __ __
Three-electrode vacuum tube that was capable of amplifying radio signals

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 8. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
It led to the development of electron tubes

9. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
He added a grid of fine wire between the cathode and the anode of Fleming’s
thermionic tube

10. __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __ __
Together with John Bardeen and Walter H. Brattain, he provided the first of a
series of devices for expanding the utility of electronic equipment

SUPER WORDS

!
B. Name the scientists below with the help of their contributions in the development of
Electronics

1.
______________________________________
Measured the charge to mass ratio of electron in
1887.

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 2.
______________________________________
Discovered that electrons will flow from one metal
conductor to another through a vacuum.

3.
______________________________________
Invented the diode which is a two electrode
vacuum tube used in detecting radio signals by
radio receivers.

4.
______________________________________
Provided the first of a series of devices for
expanding the utility of electronic equipment along
with Schokley and Brattain.

5.
______________________________________
Pioneered the development of wireless telegraph in
1896 and long-distance radio communication in
1901.

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 6.
______________________________________
Invented the picture tube and the iconoscope
camera tube.

C. In this activity, you need to identify the letters to each corresponding numbers with
the use of the clues given on page 158. After that, write the letters in a straight line
according to their order to get the message.
Note: You must have answered activity A correctly in order to get the message.

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1. 6th letter of your answer in the Activity A no.7

2. 2nd letter in the surname of the scientist who made the electron vacuum tube

3. 3rd letter in the given name of the scientist in the previous number

4. 1st letter in the surname of the scientist who made the X-ray tube

5. 1st letter in the surname of the scientist who measured the charge to mass ratio of the

electron

6. Last letter of your answer in Activity A no. 5

7. 2nd letter of the surname of the scientist in no. 4 no of this activity

8. 5th letter of your answer in Activity A no. 3

9. 3rd letter of your answer in Activity A no. 7

10. Same clue in number 4 of this activity

11. The letter before the circled letter in Activity A no. 4

12. Same clue in number 9 of this activity

13. Same clue in number 11

14. First letter in the English alphabet

15. First letter in the surname of the scientist in Activity A no. 6

16. Same clue as no. 14

17. Last letter in the English alphabet

18. Same clue as of number 12

19. Same clue as of number 8

20. Last letter in Activity A no.3

21. Symbol found in the Activity A under the section “Surprised Words”

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