Electromagnetic and gravitational wave interactions.

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dc.contributor.authorPatel, Akash
dc.contributor.authorUniversity of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science
dc.contributor.supervisorDasgupta, Arundhati
dc.date.accessioned2021-05-10T16:08:34Z
dc.date.available2021-05-10T16:08:34Z
dc.date.issued2021
dc.degree.levelMastersen_US
dc.description.abstractWith the recent detection of gravitational waves, a new window has opened for studying the universe. Because gravitational waves interact weakly with matter, they can pass through matter without being affected significantly. Due to this, they are very important in the study of the early universe. In this thesis, the interaction of gravitational waves and electromagnetic waves is studied in the Minkowski and de-Sitter spacetime. The explicit form of the perturbations (describing electromagnetic waves) is solved in the presence of a gravitational wave in the Minkowski background. We find a new frequency mode of the perturbed electromagnetic wave and analyze for resonance. The nature of the wave interaction is dependent on the relative direction of propagation of both the waves. For the de-Sitter spacetime background, the inhomogeneous wave equations for the perturbed electromagnetic wave are solved and we find a similar new mode which modulates the electromagnetic wave.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10133/5882
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.proquest.subjectPhysics [0605]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectAstronomy [0606]en_US
dc.proquest.subjectNuclear physics and radiation [0756]en_US
dc.proquestyesYesen_US
dc.publisherLethbridge, Alta. : University of Lethbridge, Dept. of Physics & Astronomyen_US
dc.publisher.departmentDepartment of Physics and Astronomyen_US
dc.publisher.facultyArts and Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofseriesThesis (University of Lethbridge. Faculty of Arts and Science)en_US
dc.subjectResearch Subject Categories::NATURAL SCIENCES::Physics::Astronomy and astrophysics::Cosmologyen_US
dc.subjectElectromagnetic wavesen_US
dc.subjectDissertations, Academicen_US
dc.subjectExpanding universeen_US
dc.subjectGeneralized spacesen_US
dc.subjectGravitational wavesen_US
dc.subjectRelativity (Physics)en_US
dc.subjectGeneral relativity (Physics)en_US
dc.subjectSpace and timeen_US
dc.titleElectromagnetic and gravitational wave interactions.en_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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