Electormagnetic Radiation
Frequency just higher than ultraviolet rays
x-rays
In 3.0 s, 480 waves pass through a certain point. What is the frequency of the waves?
160 Hz
What is the most important component of a heat pump?
refrigerant
Have frequencies between microwaves and red light
infrared rays
The use of lasers to transmit signals through narrow glass tubes.
fiber optics
What is the phenomenon in which a liquid in thin tubes rises above or falls beneath its own level?
capillarity
Most energetic light waves, capable of penetrating all substances
gamma rays
Any change in velocity.
acceleration
The quantity that measures the amount of disorder in a system.
entropy
General term for waves consisting of two transverse waves oscillating at right angles to each other
electromagnetic waves
The type of ultraviolet radiation that is mostly, but not completely, blocked by atmospheric ozone.
UVB
The process of a gas changing into a liquid.
condensation
The theory stating that light has both a wave nature and particle nature.
quantum
The idea that gravity is a result of the geometry of space.
general theory of relativity
The transfer of heat without matter.
convection