Hertzian oscillator
The Hertz oscillator (also known as the Hertz oscillator ) is the experimental set-up installed in 1888 by Heinrich Hertz and his colleagues in the Karlsruhe laboratory on three wooden tables placed one on top of the other to detect the electromagnetic waves .
The center of the experimental setup is the actual oscillator , at the ends of which are hollow metal spheres with a diameter of 30 centimeters. In its center there is a spark gap between two massive three centimeter brass balls less than one centimeter apart .
The arrangement represents an approximation of the idealized Hertzian dipole .
Web links
- Hertzian oscillator. In: Spektrum.de - Lexicon of Physics.