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Understanding the Electromagnetic Spectrum

The document explains that light is an electromagnetic wave produced by interacting electric and magnetic fields that can travel through a vacuum. It discusses the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes types of electromagnetic radiation like radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays ordered from longest to shortest wavelengths. It also explains that visible light is made up of the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet (ROYGBIV), with violet having the shortest wavelength and being refracted most when passing through a prism.

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Understanding the Electromagnetic Spectrum

The document explains that light is an electromagnetic wave produced by interacting electric and magnetic fields that can travel through a vacuum. It discusses the electromagnetic spectrum, which includes types of electromagnetic radiation like radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays ordered from longest to shortest wavelengths. It also explains that visible light is made up of the colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet (ROYGBIV), with violet having the shortest wavelength and being refracted most when passing through a prism.

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LIGHT

OBJECTIVES

Explain the electromagnetic spectrum of light Explain the phenomena of visible light

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Identify the components of visible light


ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM

 Light is electromagnetic wave it is produced from the interaction of the changing electric and
magnetic fields that can travel in vacuum. The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is the range of all
types of EM radiation. Radiation is energy that travels and spreads out as it goes – the visible
light that comes from a lamp in your house and the radio waves that come from a radio station are
two types of electromagnetic radiation. The other types of EM radiation that make up the
electromagnetic spectrum are microwave, infrared, ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays.
The electromagnetic spectrum includes, from longest wavelength to shortest:
radio waves, microwaves, infrared, optical, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma-rays.
COMPONENTS OF
VISIBLE LIGHT

 Visible light is affectionately


known as ROYGBIV.
 visible spectrum is the portion of
the electromagnetic spectrum
that is visible to the human ...
The result is that red light is bent
(refracted) less sharply than
violet
 Violet has the shortest
wavelength and the strongest

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