What is the relationship between wavelength and frequency?
Inversely proportional
What is the relationship between wavelength and energy?
Inversely proportional
Convert 467 nm to m.
4.67 x 10-7
What is the law of reflection?
The angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
Give 1 use of visible light
Photosynthesis
What type of electromagnetic wave has the highest frequency? lowest frequency?
Gamma ray, radio wave
Give 2 uses of radio waves.
What type of electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength? smallest wavelength?
Radio waves, gamma rays
What is James Clerk Maxwell's discovery about electromagnetic waves?
Maxwell discovered that the speed of all electromagnetic waves in a vacuum is equal to the speed of light.
A changing electric and magnetic field can couple together to form electromagnetic waves.
What type of electromagnetic wave has the highest energy? lowest energy?
Gamma ray, radio wave
Enumerate and define the different parts of the wave.
Crest, Trough, Wavelength, and Amplitude
Give 2 descriptions of an electromagnetic wave.
A type of wave that does not require any medium to propagate.
Produced by the interaction of electric and magnetic fields.
Transverse wave
Travels in a speed of light
What are the colors of visible light?
Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Violet
Tell the difference between the speed of an ultraviolet wave and a microwave in a vacuum.
None. They both have the same speed.
The picture shows the wavelength of a microwave and an infrared wave. Which corresponds to each type of electromagnetic wave?
Link: https://www.nde-ed.org/Physics/Waves/Graphics/waveformAB.png
WAVE A - Microwave
WAVE B - Infrared wave