EM Waves
Waves/Mirrors-Described
Types of Waves
Types of Waves 2
Types of Energy
100
It is a disturbance that involves the transfer of electric and magnetic energy.
What is electromagnetic wave?
100
The distance the crest of one wave and the crest of the next wave.
What is wavelength?
100
Electromagnetic waves with the longest wavelengths and the lowest frequencies are ____________________
What is radio waves?
100
Waves with shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies than Ultraviolet rays.
What are X-rays?
100
The total kinetic and potential energy of the particles of an object.
What is Thermal Energy?
200
The energy that electromagnetic waves transfer through matter or space.
What is electromagnetic radiation?
200
The number of waves that pass a given point at a certain amount of time.
What is frequency?
200
Waves that have just shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies than radio waves do.
What are microwaves?
200
Waves with the shortest wavelengths and highest frequencies.
What are gamma rays?
200
A type of potential energy that is stored in the nucleus of an atom.
What is nuclear energy?
300
The speed of light is ___________
What is 300,000 km/sec
300
Occurs when parallel rays of light hit a smooth surface.
What is Regular Reflection?
300
Have wavelengths that are just shorter than microwaves.
What are Infrared Rays?
300
Waves used to make internal images of bones and teeths.
What are X-Rays?
300
It is a type of potential energy stored in chemical bonds.
What is Chemical Energy?
400
What are the two fields that are at 90 degrees to each other called?
What are the magnetic field and electric field?
400
The type of mirror that can produce both Read and Virtual Images.
Concave Mirrors.
400
A mirror with a surface that curves inward like the inside of a bowl.
Concave
400
This wave is important for the skin cells to make Vitamin D.
What are Ultraviolet rays?
400
The energy of electric charges.
What is Electrical Energy?
500
All electromagnetic fields have this in common?
What is their speed in a vacuum?
500
An image that forms where light seems to come from it.
What is Virtual Image?
500
Waves with wavelengths just shorter than those of visible light?
What are Ultraviolet Rays?
500
The waves are used to take pictures of internal organs.
What are Gamma Rays?
500
The energy release in visible light, x-rays, and ultraviolet rays is _____________________.
What is electromagnetic energy?