What is transmission?

Transmission is when something moves from one place to another through a path or medium.

Imagine you're playing with your favorite toy car on the floor. You push it, and it rolls across the room, that’s transmission in action! The toy car is like the thing being moved, and the floor is the medium it uses to travel.

How Transmission Works

Think of a hose connected to a water tap. When you turn on the tap, water flows through the hose to your garden. The hose is the path, and the water is what’s being transmitted, just like how messages or energy can move from one place to another through wires or even air.

You can also think about speaking into a phone. Your voice travels through the air, gets picked up by the phone, and then goes through wires or signals to reach the person on the other end. That's transmission too, your voice is being sent somewhere else!

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Examples

  1. A phone call uses sound waves to transmit your voice over a wire.
  2. A radio station sends music through the air using invisible waves.
  3. You send a text message, and it travels from one phone to another.

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