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Electromagnetic Spectrum The Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrum is just a name that scientists give a bunch of types of radiation when they want to talk about them as a group.Electromagnetic (EM) Spectrumradiation Electromagnetic Radiation is energy that does not require a medium. The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of all possible frequencies of electromagnetic radiation. electromagnetic radiation
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Electromagnetic Waves Do not require a medium; Capable of transmitting its energy through a vacuum; Produced by the vibration of charged particles; Propagates by the oscillation of both the electric and magnetic fields which support one another As the electric field recedes, the magnetic field increases and vice versa
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Electromagnetic Waves
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300,000,000 meters in one second (3.0 x 10 8 m/s) Light from the sun reaches the earth in 8 minutes.
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Only visible light Why can’t you see the others? –The waves are moving either too fast or too slow for your eyes to pick them up.
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PICTURE TIME…WAVELENGTH AND FREQUENCY
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Transverse waves that have some electrical and some magnetic properties.
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What is a prism? A triangular shaped translucent object which reflects light
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Wavelength R O Y G B I V Red longest Violet shortest
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There are times when it is easier to understand light as a stream of particles or a RAY DUAL THEORY OF LIGHT NOT ALWAYS A WAVE
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When light goes through a filter eliminating some of the waves
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Picture time!
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Sunlight Radio Infrared Visible light Ultra Violet Television X-rays Gamma Rays Ocean
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Radio Infrared Visible light X Rays Gamma Rays
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Picture time!
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What is Visible light Shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies than infrared… Colors ROYGBIV
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They are opposites. When the wavelength gets bigger, the frequency gets lower….
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Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Picture time!
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