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Q: Why do red light waves travel faster than blue light waves?
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Does red light travel faster than blue light?

No. All colors travel at the same speed. It is called "the speed of light".


Give two differences between red yellow and blue light waves?

they travel at a different frequency.


In the light spectrum are red waves shorter than blue waves?

Red light waves are almost double the length of blue or violet light waves. Wavelength is inversely proportional to frequency; red light has a higher frequency than blue light.


When electrons travel faster than the speed of light in a particular medium a beautiful deep-blue light occurs This effect is called?

Cerenkov radiation.


Is the sky blue because of oxygen?

They blue color of sky is due to the fact that when light waves travel the shorter wavelengths like blue are absorbed and other ones passed with little or no absorption. The blue light is than radiated. Thats why sky looks blue.


Why does the color blue travel faster in carnations than other colors?

how fast does the colour blue travel


Why do plants grow faster in blue light?

it grows faster


Why do plants grow faster under blue light?

because blue light has a lot of energy so the plant grows faster


Which have longer wavelength radio waves or light waves?

Radio waves have a far longer wavelength than visible light. The radio waves that do the cooking in your microwave oven are as long as roughly 310,000 waves of blue light placed end-to-end. The radio waves transmitted by an AM station at 1400kHz on your AM dial are roughly 550 billion times as long as blue-light waves.


What light waves does a blue object reflect?

The wavelengths are corresponded to the color of the light. A blue object will reflect any light radiation expect the color blue. It will absorb the blue light.


Which wave of light has the greatest frequency?

nope. because then it would travel faster than light, which is currently impossible.


Why do the physics books tell us that red lights travels faster than blue light when they're all electromagnetic waves?

No physics book published since 1920 should have said such a thing. Electromagnetic waves all travel at the speed of light in the medium they transit. In a perfect vacuum all travel at "c". But they do change frequency IN ORDER TO MAINTAIN their velocity, since the wave numbers are maintained. As an example-- a source of light coming toward you will be bluer, and one receding from you will look redder. But the velocity will be "c" in a vacuum.