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Nobody knows who created the visible spectrum but newton was the first to actually prove that light was made up of all the colours in the visible spectrum
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When was the color wheel first discovered?
Isaac Newton created the first color wheel in 1666 when he discovered a visible color spectrum using a prism.
How was infrared discovered?
According to NASA infrared radiation was first discovered in 1800, by a British astronomer named William Herschel. In an experiment to measure the difference in temperature between the colors in the visible spectrum, he placed thermometers in the path of light within each color of the visible spectrum. He observed an increase in temperature from blue to red, including an even warmer temperature measurement just beyond the red end of the visible spectrum.
What has been discovered using electromagnetic waves outside the visible spectrum?
microwave pulsarsgamma ray burstersx-ray photographyetc.
Do the Electromagnetic waves that humans can see make up the electronagnetic spectrum or do they make up the visible spectrum?
The visible spectrum.
Which of these statements about the EM spectrum is false?
Most of the EM spectrum is visible light.
What are the colours in the visible spectrum of light?
The colors in the visible spectrum of light are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
What is the only light visible in the electromagnetic spectrum?
the range of the spectrum that's known as "visible light"
What is between visible light and the electromagnetic spectrum?
Visible light is a small section in the electromagnetic spectrum.
What does the spectrum in the electromagnetic spectrum do?
I suppose you mean the visible spectrum, only a small part of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. The visible spectrum is basically all of the colors the human eye can detect.
Does a prism separate light into only the visible spectrum or the entire spectrum?
Well, seeing as it seperates visible light, it follows that it only seperates that visible light into the visible spectrum. You can't make radiowaves or UV rays out of visible light.
The visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum represent a large portion of the spectrum?
The visible portion of electromagnetic spectrum is called the visible light and is the electromagnetic wave with the wavelength between 380 - 740 nm.
What is a spectrum light?
Most of the electromagnetic spectrum is not visible.
