On 11 February 1800, (William) Herschel ... discovered infrared radiation in sunlight by passing it through a prism and holding a thermometer just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum... He was shocked when it showed a higher temperature than the visible spectrum. Further experimentation led to Herschel's conclusion that there must be an invisibleform of lLIGHT beyond the VISIBLE SPECTRUM.
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White light is actually not a single colour. It is made up of lots of colours. The colours that you can convince yourself of seeing are red, orange, yellow, green, indigo, blue and violet. Each of these colours is actually a transverse wave. Becasue we can see them, we call this 'mini collection' of waves the 'visible spectrum'. Here's the note sheet on these 'visible' waves:
The Waves of the Visible Spectrum
So, this is what Herschel did:
Then, we tried it in the lab and here's the photo. The stick thing is a thermometer probe. We checked out the temperatures in the spectrum made by splitting white light with a 60° prism. Then we looked at the temperatures outside what we can see (to the left of the red in the photo).
Repeating Herschel's experiment in the lab
And, much to our surprise, more than half of the class reported a higher temperature outside of the red part of the spectrum. If this is correct, we repeated Herschel's experiment in our lab. This 'unsee-able' colour is in fact a wave that we call today 'infra red'.
The Electromagnetic Spectrum2.2 Demonstrate an understanding that all electromagnetic waves are transverse and that they travel at the same speed in a vacuum2.3 Describe the continuous electromagnetic spectrum including (in order) radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible (including the colours of the visible spectrum), ultraviolet, X-rays and gamma rays
2.4 Demonstrate an understanding that the electromagnetic spectrum is continuous from radio waves to gamma rays, but the radiations within it can be grouped in order of decreasing wavelength and increasing frequency
Electromagnetic dangers2.5 Demonstrate an understanding that the potential danger associated with an electromagnetic wave increases with increasing frequency2.6 Relate the harmful effects, to life, of excessive exposure to the frequency of the electromagnetic radiation, including:
2.9 Describe that ionising radiation includes alpha and beta particles and gamma rays and that they transfer energy
ultraviolet radiation
Just below red (in frequency) is infrared light.
Because at that time only men were involved in the outside works and that and women were housewives! :)
By looking at the spectrum of its light and finding out which absorbtion lines can be seen. The lines correspond to specific elements in the outer parts of the star.
Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) uses 650nm wavelength laser diode light (part of the electromagnetic spectrum, in visable light section) which allows us to see it. CD uses 780nm wavelength, just outside of the electromagnetic spectrum, hence why we cannot 'see' it, only hear.
It's called infrared light outside one end of the spectrum,and ultraviolet light outside the other end.,
An astronomical discovery is the discovery of anything outside of the planet earth and its atmosphere.
Red is at the low frequency end of the visible spectrum.
The part of the rainbow that you can see is. There's more to the rainbow than what you see ... outside the red end and outside the violet end. Those regions are composed of parts of the spectrum that are not visible.
The Red spectrum of colors is always the outermost arc on a Rainbow while the Blue spectrum of colors make up the innermost arc
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ultraviolet radiation
Salavery glands
Just below red (in frequency) is infrared light.
Gall bladder, liver, pancreas
microwave pulsarsgamma ray burstersx-ray photographyetc.
Invisible to humans but visible to some animals (eg bees).