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Is it true that energy from the sun reaches earth through electromagnetic waves?
Wiki User
∙ 11y ago
Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is strange. It is like waves in some ways, and it is like particles in some ways. EMR includes all light and radio waves, and other categories as well. One of the properties of EMR is that it does not need a 'medium' to move through. It can easily travel through vacuum. Other kinds of wave need a physical medium through which to propagate. So EMR of a wide range of frequencies is coming toward us from all points of the sky, traveling through the vacuum of space until it is absorbed by particles in space, in our atmosphere, or at the surface.
Wiki User
∙ 13y ago
Wiki User
∙ 11y agoYes. Nearly all the energy from the Sun is electromagnetic radiation.
Wiki User
∙ 12y agoThis is not some sort of radiation, but a black body radiator is the term used to describe an ideal radiator (or absorber). This usually refers to radiation or absorption of heat.
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What form does suns energy have when it reaches earth?
The Sun's energy is given out mainly as "electromagnetic radiation". Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Heat is the main form the Sun's energy has when it reaches Earth, particularly the Earth's surface.
What does solar energy reach earth by?
Solar energy reaches the earth by two means, Electricity and Gravity.
What energy comes from the sun reaches to the earth?
Electromagnetic energy of every kind. This includes light, heat, ultraviolet, gamma rays, x-rays and every possible frequency of electromagnetic radiation.
Energy from the sun travel to earth's surface by what?
Energy from the sun travels to the earth's surface is brought here by electromagnetic radiation. Once the radiation reaches the planet, most of it is converted to heat.
What makes up radiant energy?
In most contexts radiant energy would be assumed to be made up of electromagnetic radiation, such as light. The force carrier for electromagnetic radiation is a massless fundamental particle, the photon.
How radiant energy reaches the earth?
It reaches earth as an electromagnetic wave.
What form does suns energy have when it reaches earth?
The Sun's energy is given out mainly as "electromagnetic radiation". Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Heat is the main form the Sun's energy has when it reaches Earth, particularly the Earth's surface.
Most of the sun's energy reaches earth as?
Electromagnetic radiation.
What is the source of the electromagnetic energy that reaches earth from the sun?
the solar panals
How does energy reach the earth?
Energy, from the sun, reaches us in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
Solar energy travels to the earth in?
Energy from the sun travels to the earth's surface is brought here by electromagnetic radiation. Once the radiation reaches the planet, most of it is converted to heat.
How does the energy from the sun reach the earth?
Waves of heat and light, called radiation, travel to earth.
What forms of electromagnetic energy carry most of the energy of the sun to earth?
It is radiated electromagnetic energy, the only sort that can travel through space.
What does solar energy reach earth by?
Solar energy reaches the earth by two means, Electricity and Gravity.
How does the sun' energy travel to the earth?
Electromagnetic radiation... i.e., light. Electromagnetic Waves A+
What energy comes from the sun reaches to the earth?
Electromagnetic energy of every kind. This includes light, heat, ultraviolet, gamma rays, x-rays and every possible frequency of electromagnetic radiation.
Energy from the sun travel to earth's surface by what?
Energy from the sun travels to the earth's surface is brought here by electromagnetic radiation. Once the radiation reaches the planet, most of it is converted to heat.
