UV ultraviolet is absorbed by the very outer layer of our skin which causes sunburn and skin cancer• taking long steps "long wavelength"• Visible light goes "Roy G Bv": Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Violet• Example: From The Sun A lot of the the radiation from the Sun gets reflected or absorbed by the atmosphere | X-rays are absorbed at different rates by bone and muscle so we can see inside us• As Photons Electromagnetic radiation behaves as waves, but also behaves as packets of energy called Photons |
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Blue light has higher frequency with shorter wavelengths , so has more energy than red | That is 300 million meters every second, or:• Here is the full electromagnetic spectrum: Higher frequency rate of vibration has more energy and shorter wavelength |
Electromagnetic Spectrum Electromagnetism It is called "electromagnetism" because electricity and magnetism are linked: A changing electric field produces a magnetic field, a changing magnetic field produces an electric field,.
8This effect heads off through space at the fastest speed possible: the speed of light | But how waves interact with matter depends on their energy and the type of matter Example: Our Bodies• So telescopes like the NuSTAR X-ray telescope have to be in orbit |
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To his surprise, he found that this region had the highest temperature of all |
Ranges We like to think of the spectrum as having these ranges:• Energy and Ionization Gamma rays, x-rays, and some ultraviolet waves have such high energy that they are "ionizing," meaning they can knock electrons out of atoms.