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What is the range of electromagnetic waves from radio waves to X-rays?
Radio waves and microwaves lie at the longer end of the spectrum of electromagnetic energy (kilometers and meters to centimeters and milimeters), while x rays and gamma rays have very short wavelengths (billionths or trillionths of a meter).
What is the range of X-rays?
X-ray, electromagnetic radiation of extremely short wavelength and high frequency, with wavelengths ranging from about 10−8 to 10−12 metre and corresponding frequencies from about 1016 to 1020 hertz (Hz).
Do X-rays or radio waves have a higher frequency?
Your radio detects radio waves, which have much longer wavelengths than visible light. X-rays, on the other hand, are waves with much shorter wavelengths than visible light. The higher the frequency of a wave, the higher its energy.
How do X-rays compared to radio waves?
All electromagnetic radiation, of which radio waves and X-rays are examples, travels at the speed c in a vacuum. The only difference between the two is that the frequency of X-rays is very much higher than radio waves.
What is the full range of frequencies of electromagnetic radiation called?
The electromagnetic spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum is the range of frequencies (the spectrum) of electromagnetic radiation and their respective wavelengths and photon energies.
How big is the range of electromagnetic radiation?
The electromagnetic spectrum ( EMS) is the general name given to the known range of electromagnetic radiation. Wavelengths increase from approximately 10 -18 m to 100 km, and this corresponds to frequencies decreasing from 3 × 10 26 Hz to 3 ×10 3 Hz.
What kind of radiation is a radio wave?
As I mentioned briefly before, radio waves are also light waves. Infrared radiation is a kind of light wave (usually abbreviated as IR). The same is true of ultraviolet waves (UV), x-rays, and gamma-rays.
What’s the difference between gamma rays and radio waves?
The difference between these other types of light and visible light is again the wavelength of the light. The entire electromagnetic spectrum is presented from the longest wavelengths of light (radio waves) to the shortest wavelengths of light (gamma-rays) at the following NASA website:
How are the wavelengths of the EM spectrum measured?
Measuring electromagnetic radiation. The wavelengths of ultraviolet, X-ray, and gamma-ray regions of the EM spectrum are very small. Instead of using wavelengths, astronomers that study these portions of the EM spectrum usually refer to these photons by their energies, measured in electron volts (eV).
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