Electromagnetic radiation is more common than you think. Radio and TV stations emit radio waves when they broadcast their programs; microwaves cook your food in a microwave oven; dentists use X rays to check your teeth. Even though they have different names and different applications, these types of radiation are really all the same thing: electromagnetic (EM) waves, that is, energy that travels in the form of oscillating electric and magnetic fields. Which of the following statements correctly describe the various applications listed above?
a) All these technologies use radio waves, including low-frequency microwaves.
b) All these technologies use radio waves, including high-frequency microwaves.
c) All these technologies use a combination of infrared waves and high-frequency microwaves.
d) Microwave ovens emit in the same frequency band as some wireless Internet devices.
e) The radiation emitted by wireless Internet devices has the shortest wavelength of all the technologies listed above.
f) All these technologies emit waves with a wavelength in the range 0.10 to 10.0 m.
g) All the technologies emit waves with a wavelength in the range 0.01 to 10.0 km.

Microwave are radio waves of short wavelength, from about 10 centimetres to one millimetre, in the Super High Frequency and the Extremely High Frequency bands. Microwaves can penetrate into materials and deposit their energy below the surface which is why is is used in microwave heating found in microwave oven. Transmission of data sometimes involves the use of microwaves to send and receive information over a long distance. Microwaves are the mainly used in radar, used for satellite communication, and wireless networking technologies such as Wi-Fi.