EM Spectrum
The Electromagnetic Spectrum on Flash
Presentation
A Flash presentation about and around the EM spectrum showing a lot of things, like frequencies & ranges, applications & allocations, attenuations &emission lines, a frequency-wavelength-energy calculator and much more (Check the features!)
It's fully customizable with XML, but it comes already with some basic things.
Features
- Logarithmic scale (frequency / wavelength)
- with a "mouse hover pointer" which gives you detailed frequencies (Scientific or closest SI notation)
- Zoom functions
- Division of the spectrum in:
- Types or well-know ranges (Radio waves • Microwave • Infrared • Visible spectrum •• Ultraviolet • X-ray • Gamma ray)
with a short explanation of each (with uses, charecteristics, etc..) - Radio bands (ELF SLF ULF VLF LF MF HF VHF UHF SHF EHF FIR MIR NIR NUV FUV EUV)
- types, classes, ..
- Types or well-know ranges (Radio waves • Microwave • Infrared • Visible spectrum •• Ultraviolet • X-ray • Gamma ray)
- Independant layers / overlays which you can switch on and off:
- Ranges, plots, maps, etc.:
- Interaction with matter or Processes at atomic level (molecular rotation and torsion / vibration // electronic jumping / inonisation / compton scattering)
- Wavelength size comparison (with some well known things such as a building, insect, cell, virus, amino acid, atoms, ..)
- Customizable frequency applications
- Customizable frequency allocations
- Customizable attenuation / black bodies plots or maps
- Frequency pinpoints:
- Customizable well-known frequencies
- Customizable emission lines
- Ranges, plots, maps, etc.:
- Frequency-wavelength-energy on-the-fly calculator
- Automatically jump to the average "interest zone" on change
- Available Overlays / XML's in the table below
| Name | Type | File |
| Some well-known | Frequency allocations | included |
| Europe ECA | Frequency allocations | included |
| ITU Region 1 | Frequency applications | included |
| Europe ECA | Frequency applications | included |
| Atmospheric attenuation | Plots | included |
| Spectrum of the sun in space (at earth) | Plots | included |
| Spectrum of the sun on earth | Plots | included |
| Theoretical Black Body | Plots | included |
| Special frequencies (microwave, water resonance, mobile phone, RGB, ..) |
Pinpoints (customizable via 1 file only) | included |
| Hydrogen (theory) Emission lines | Pinpoints | included |
| Hydrogen (observed) Emission lines | Pinpoints | included |
| Oxygen (observerd) Emission lines | Pinpoints | included |
| Some important/strong Emission lines | Pinpoints | included |
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Planned
Development has halted for now by lack of time & resources.
Fix bugs
- The whole scale and positions seems to have an offset (at least on layers). (since zoom feature??)
- Not all overlays stay put and are notified as switched on or not
Donations will only speed this up!
- Displaying of Wikipedia information (mainly targeted to this pag: Electromagnetic spectrum
and its related articles / templates) - Set transparancy layers
- Curve the lines between 2 points in self generated graphics(based on the others)
- Make black body / attenuation XML more customizable via extra options (in XML!) (via slider, etc..)
e.g. different atm. attenuations with diff. weather / sun specttrum with height / .. - Allow other SI (dB/km, etc..)
- Improve wavelength / frequency calculations
- Maybe once in Amstrong (first check if still generally used somewhere)
- Update MAtter-interaction: In stead of arrows, a way of inidcating where most common effects (e.g. electron energy changes are ranging from x to y; look it up)
- Add more content (attenuations, reflection, refraction, BBs, ELs, ...) !!! :-))))
Documentation
Just use it online on the presentation Tab above or download and extract the package and double click the swf file.
Customize
* You can customize via XML and link graphics and flash movies (jpg, gif, .., swf, ..).
You can customize via XML files in the folder of the movie (and include graphics and flash movies (jpg, gif, .., swf, ..)).
Starting with the main files "Menuallocation.xml, MenuApplication.xml, MenuEmission.xml, MenuGraph.xml, SpecF.xml" you can find all the related xml files. It's a bit of searching in the beginning, but everything is self-explanatory. Have a look at them and make your own. if you do, you are more than welcome to
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. I would appreciate it. I will publish them all on the webspace of this movie. Sharing is the future! ;-)
(I am also considering any comments, feature requests...)
I am afraid I haven't found any standard yet for the different XML. Suggestions are welcome.
(If you want to add some documentation to this page, please don't hesitate to send it to me. I will place it here)
Download
For testing or making your own overlays or for using it locally on your computer (for speed e.g.):
EM spectrum v0.5.zip
License: Attribution-Share Alike (Attribution: link to attic.e-motiv.net and mention built by e-motiv)
