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If you can visualize whipping a length of rope tied to a fixed spot back and forth, you can then perfectly visualize radio frequency waves. If you whip the rope up and down the wave is vertically polarized. If you whip it back and forth horizontally, it is horizontally polarized. If you use a set of "rabbit ears" (dipole) to transmit a signal and hold it so the antenna points up and down, the radiated waves will be vertically polarized. To receive vertically polarized waves best, you need to use a vertically polarized antenna. The same holds true for horizontally polarized systems. This is a very simple but applicable explanation. There are other kinds of polarization such as "circular" as used in FM broadcasting and space communications. Just remember that the transmitting antenna's design determines the polarization of a radiated wave. See the ARRL Handbook 621.384 in your library for more detail.
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Is length measured vertical or horizontal?
Length can be measured either way. The actual definition of length is the longest dimension.A shape that is two units horizontal and three units vertical will have a length of 3, and in this case, the length is measured vertical. At the same time, a shape that is three units horizontal and two units vertical will also have a length of 3, but in this case, the length is measured horizontal.Many people make the mistake of thinking that length is always horizontal or always vertical. This is incorrect, however. The easiest way to see that this is false is to rotate the shape 90 degrees; this causes the length to change to what was before the width, and as such, length is not consistent, even though the shape is the same. Length is always the longest dimension. As such, width is always the dimension that makes a (two-dimensional) right angle with the length. This will always just be the other dimension in two-dimensional objects.
Does length mean up and down like horizontil?
"Up and down" is vertical. Side to side (or across) is horizontal. An easy way to remember this is "horizontal" runs like the horizon. The vertical measurment is usually referred to as the height. The length would be the horizontal measurement.
What is vertical and what is horizontal?
Vertical is up and horizontal is across
