Vocabulary
The range of all possible frequencies and wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
Units for wavelength
What are meters?
Speed of light
What is 3 x 10^8 m/s?
Light spectrum from lowest to highest energy.
What is ROYGBIV?
Protons in hydrogen
What is 1?
Distance from one point on a wave to the same point on the next wave
What is wavelength?
Units for frequency
What are hertz?
Planck's constant
What is 6.63 x 10^-34?
Longest wavelength
What are radio waves?
Electrons in oxygen
What is 8?
Displacement moved by a point on a vibrating wave measured from the equilibrium position
What is amplitude?
Units for speed of light
What are m/s?
Equation involving wavelength
What is c = (wavelength)(frequency)?
Shortest wavelength
What are gamma rays?
Atomic number of Neon.
What is 10?
Number of waves that pass a certain point in a specified amount of time
What is frequency?
Units for energy
What are joules?
Equation to find energy
What is E = (plancks constant) (frequency)
Five parts of a graph
What is wavelength, amplitude, crest, and trough?
Different number of electrons than protons in an element
What is an ion?
The point where the displacement is maximum and the lowest point
What is crest and trough?
Units for Plancks constant
What are Joules/Hertz?
Combining the two formulas.
What is E = (planck's constant)(speed of light) / wavelength
These are inversely proportional
Frequency and wavelength
When there is a different mass number/number of neutrons than normally is in an element.
What is an isotope?