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Engineering & The Media: EMP

Engineering & The Media: EMP. Speaker: Nelson Oliveira. Agenda:. The Technology What’s an EMP ? Type of EMP events. How it Works? The Application Military usage The Consequence. What’s an EMP ?. EMP stands for Electromagnetic Pulse.

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Engineering & The Media: EMP

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  1. Engineering & The Media: EMP Speaker: Nelson Oliveira

  2. Agenda: • The Technology • What’s an EMP ? • Type of EMP events. • How it Works? • The Application • Military usage • The Consequence

  3. What’s an EMP ? • EMP stands for Electromagnetic Pulse. • EMP is a wave of fluctuating electrical and magnetic energy that creates vey high energy and high voltage pulses.

  4. Types of EMP events There are two type of EMP events: • Natural ( solar flares) • Man-made ( Nuclear or Non-nuclear)

  5. Building an EMP Generator • A Capacitor • A Transformer • A Trigger • A coil of copper wire

  6. Application of the EMP • EMP is widely used by the military. • Nuclear E-bomb. • Non-nuclear E-bomb.

  7. Consequences of EMP usage Destroy Electronics. Destroy Power Grids.

  8. Consequences of EMP usage Destroy Electronics. Destroy Power Grids.

  9. Literature Cited http://fear-of-lightning.wonderhowto.com/how-to/making-electromagnetic-weapons-theory-behind-emp-generators-0133121/ http://lyle.smu.edu/emis/design/?p=1751 http://science.howstuffworks.com/e-bomb3.htm http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_pulse

  10. QUESTIONS!!!

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