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The shorter the wavelength of a wave, the higher its energy.
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What does the wavelength of an EM wave tell about its energy?
The shorter the wavelength of a wave, the higher its energy.
How does the wavelength of a wave change when the frequency changes?
Usually with electromagnetic waves, the frequency and energy is opposite to the wavelength. An EM wave such as radiowaves have huge wavelengths, slow frequencies and small amounts of energy. An EM wave such as X-rays have tiny wavelengths, fast frequencies and large amounts of energy.
What is the frequency of an EM wave that has a wavelength of 1 mm?
If only there were an equation that related the speed of EM waves, wavelength, and frequency... c=(wavelength)(frequency) Make sure and keep your units straight.
How is the frequency of an EM wave related to it's energy?
The higher the frequency of a wave, the higher its energy.
Electromagnetic waves of the longest wavelength carry the greatest energy?
No. The energy of an EM wave is E = h*c / (wavelength), therefore waves with the shortest wavelength (or highest frequency) carry the greatest energy.
What does the wavelength of an EM wave tell about its energy?
The shorter the wavelength of a wave, the higher its energy.
How does the wavelength of a wave change when the frequency changes?
Usually with electromagnetic waves, the frequency and energy is opposite to the wavelength. An EM wave such as radiowaves have huge wavelengths, slow frequencies and small amounts of energy. An EM wave such as X-rays have tiny wavelengths, fast frequencies and large amounts of energy.
What is the frequency of an EM wave that has a wavelength of 1 mm?
If only there were an equation that related the speed of EM waves, wavelength, and frequency... c=(wavelength)(frequency) Make sure and keep your units straight.
How is the frequency of an EM wave related to it's energy?
The higher the frequency of a wave, the higher its energy.
Electromagnetic waves of the longest wavelength carry the greatest energy?
No. The energy of an EM wave is E = h*c / (wavelength), therefore waves with the shortest wavelength (or highest frequency) carry the greatest energy.
What does the wavelength of EM wave tell you about its energy?
It tells you that the longer the wavelength the lower the energy. From the wavelength, one can also calculate the actual energy by using E = cxh/lambda where c is speed of light, h is Plank's constant and lambda is the wavelength.
What does the wavelength of a EM wave tell you about its energy?
It tells you that the longer the wavelength the lower the energy. From the wavelength, one can also calculate the actual energy by using E = cxh/lambda where c is speed of light, h is Plank's constant and lambda is the wavelength.
What does the wave length of an EM wave tell about its energy?
Longer wavelength less energy and shorter wavelength equals more energy. This is because velocity (speed)=frequency x wavelength. And te velocity of all EM waves is the speed of light. we know the expression- frequency=speed of light(c)/wavelength Energy is given by- E=h*frequency=h*c/wavelength {h=Planck's constant} so,energy is directly proportional to frequency and inversly proportional to wavelength...that is energy increases with increase in frequency and decreases with increase in wavelength. example:-red color has more wavelength and hence has less energy.
How does the speed of light depend on the wavelength?
The equation relating the velocity, wavelength and frequency of an electromagnetic wave is given byv=f λwhere v - velocity of the em wavef - frequency of the em wave andλ - wavelength of the em wave------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------It is so important to know that velocity of light depends on the nature of the medium and does not depend on the wavelength.
What does the wavelength of an em tell about it's energy?
As the wavelength decreases, the energy increases.
What gamma waves have?
Gamma waves have the shortest wavelength of any electromagnetic wave in the EM spectrum, the shortest wavelength means highest cyclic frequency, and highest intensity of any EM wave. (energy transferance by gamma waves is the strongest) *intensity is a measure of the height of the sine wave as opposed to to length, essentially more energy in a smaller crossectional area.
What does the energy of an em depend on?
If you mean electromagnetic waves, the energy per photon is directly proportional to the frequency (and therefore inversely proportional to the wavelength). The total energy of the wave, of course, can be just about anything.
