How a Helix = Sine & Cosine Waves and the Unit Circle (MATLAB animation)

An animation of a helix being drawn with projections onto perpendicular planes. We get a sine wave on one, a cosine on the other, and the unit circle when viewed from above!

[scienceblossom]

VERY MUCH UNDERRATED SCIENTIFIC VIDEO THANKS A This video made me crazy!!! can't thank you enough for making and sharing this... .

[remomagalhaes]

thanks for this nice animation!!! congratulations

[gillimonruano]

The pot of gold I was aiming for! LIFE ... The way by which we see a world of living color, witness the orbit of the stars above our heads, and have been given the breath of life, with our "love letter" incorporated DNA. So, so much more, too. Now, that's what I call electromagnetic love from above.

[Troynjk]

Can you make a double helix and triple helix? Or 2 phase and 3 phase waves?

[Muhovc]

In case this confuses anyone, if this is supposed to represent a wave traveling in space, the wave at 0:22 and 0:53 is travelling to the left, not to the right.

[TomHendricksMusea]

Wave or Helix, a look at the Electromagnetic Wave

The electromagnetic wave has both an electric field and a magnetic field. These are perpendicular to each other.

The illustrations online for the electromagnetic spectrum show a range of wavelengths from radio to gamma waves. But the illustrations show waves, never a helix. So which are they?

See my diagram. The electric wave is a vertical wave in red, and the magnetic wave is a horizontal wave in blue. They are perpendicular to each other.

Next see any of the numerous animated YouTube videos on sine waves and cosine waves. Mapping a helix or moving circle or spiral with a sine wave and a cosine wave, shows exactly the same thing as my drawing.

That seems to suggest that electromagnetic waves are not waves but helixes!!! This exactly fits a sine and cosine wave mapped as a helix, spiral, or moving circle.

This seems so obvious, yet I've never seen an electromagnetic wave represented as a helix or spiral. Has anyone else?

[WEAVER]

anyone that dislikes this probably doesnt like breathing