Do infrared waves have low or high frequency waves?

Answer 1

Yes. Frequency is the number of cycles per second. Wavelength is how long it takes for the wave to complete one cycle. They are inversely proportional, which means in essence that as one goes up the other goes down.

Answer 2

Gamma rays have the highest frequency, highest energy, and shortest wavelength of all electromagnetic radiation.

Gamma rays were named around 1900 as one of the then uncharacterized forms of radiation which then also included alpha and beta rays. Later these were recognized to be a high energy form of electromagnetic radiation, i.e. the same thing as visible light except that this form had a higher energy. Since these were discovered in connection with radioactive decay, the energies were in the ball park of 100 keV (100,000 electron volts) and frequencies above 10 to the 19th Hz and wave lengths of 10 picometers, i.e. 10 trillionths of a meter.

But, times change and what was high energy a hundred years ago is not so high now and the current conventional usage of the term gamma ray depends on the context. If the electromagnetic radiation comes from nuclear decay, then it is usually still called a gamma ray. There are x-ray sources that have energies in the range of a million electron volts (MeV) and there are some low energy nuclear decay processes that give off gamma rays of less than 10 keV. Except for this overlap region, gamma rays are basically any form of electromagnetic radiation in the MeV and higher.

In summary, there is no absolute rule as to when the transition from X-rays to gamma rays occurs, but you can use the 100keV number as a rough transition region.
Gamma rays, or gamma waves, have a high frequency.

Answer 3

You haven't said "compared to what".

Radio waves would probably be considered low-frequency / long-wavelength,

because the lower/longer forms of E&M radiation aren't too useful to us, and

in the normal everyday everyman's world, you never hear anything about them.

Answer 4

Longer Wavelengths have a lower frequency.

Answer 5

Well, generally speaking, wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency(for constant velocity). So, long wavelength radiation has small frequency(relatively).

Answer 6

Lower frequency ===> longer wavelength

Answer 7

In the electromagnetic spectrum, it is low frequency.

Answer 8

long wavelenth (low frequency)

Answer 9

higher frequency

Answer 10

Lower frequency = Longer wavelength