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Light Travel and Wave Properties Explained

Light travels as an electromagnetic wave. Its key characteristics include amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and crest and trough. Frequency and wavelength are inversely related - as frequency increases, wavelength decreases and vice versa. The electromagnetic spectrum refers to the full range of different types of electromagnetic radiation. Visible light is a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can perceive. Radiation ranges from radio waves to gamma rays based on wavelength, with shorter wavelengths having higher frequencies and energies. Analysis of emission spectra can be used to identify elements.

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Light Travel and Wave Properties Explained

Light travels as an electromagnetic wave. Its key characteristics include amplitude, wavelength, frequency, and crest and trough. Frequency and wavelength are inversely related - as frequency increases, wavelength decreases and vice versa. The electromagnetic spectrum refers to the full range of different types of electromagnetic radiation. Visible light is a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum that the human eye can perceive. Radiation ranges from radio waves to gamma rays based on wavelength, with shorter wavelengths having higher frequencies and energies. Analysis of emission spectra can be used to identify elements.

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Understanding How Light Travels

What is the Electromagnetic spectrum


Please watch the video. Summarize
the video in ONE sentence.
LIGHT travels as a wave
VOCABULARY WORD DEFINITION E R E to
Cl i c k H
Amplitude A wave’s height from zero to the crest access a
o c ab u l ary
Crest The highest point of a wave
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review
Trough The lowest point of a wave

The distance between crests; the length


Wavelength
of one complete wave cycle

The number of wave cycles to pass a


Frequency
given point per unit of time
Label the wave parts AMPLIT

CRES

TROUG

WAVELEN

WAVELEN
Frequency Wavelength

What is the relationship


between frequency &
wavelength?

Click on the sliders to run the


simulator.
❏ Set the “frequency slider” to about 0.2 Hz ❏ Now set the “frequency slider” to about 1.1
❏ Now set the frequency slider to about 0.7 Hz
Hz What happened to the SIZE of the wave?
What happened to the SIZE of the wave?

❏ Move the “wave amplitude” slider. What happens to the size of the wave?

Frequency Wavelength
List 4 things you learned in the video
How we see LIGHT?
Analyzing relationships
What waves have the LONGEST
wavelength?

What waves have the HIGHEST


energy?

What waves have the HIGHEST


frequency??
Analyzing diagrams

What actually is white light? Why do we see the color black?


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to complete the
sort.

List 3 things that you learned about the electromagnetic spectrum


on skin tans and emitted by s
burns Electromagnetic Wave Description Example gases in

ble by the human used to image


eye
RADIO
bone

the kitchen to MICROWAVE Given off as


ook food objec
INFRARED
off by nuclear
radiation Carry the mo
VISIBLE LIGHT
ROYGBIV
uous Spectrum The longes
ULTRAVIOLET
waves that can’t
rough a screen X-RAYS Emitted by

nses this as heat GAMMA RAYS Carries enou


that it can ca
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EM ON C - Boh l
Electrons can absorb energy from various
sources (electricity) and jump to a higher
energy level – when they lose that energy, they
emit a photon. This corresponds to a certain
frequency of light in the visible spectrum!

● Ground state: An atom with its


electrons in the lowest possible energy
levels (closer to the nucleus).
● Excited state: Electrons that absorb
energy and “jump” to higher energy
levels (further from the nucleus).
models to indicate the

EM ON C - Boh l absorption or release of energy by


electrons as they change
energy levels.

Highlight the correct words below:


In all of these hydrogen atoms the electron moves from a (lower/higher) energy state to a (lower/higher)
energy state.
Identifying Elements
Using Their Emission
Spectra
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