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Shortest wavelength means the highest frequency, meaning the photons have the highest energy. That is color violet. The violet light colors the skin brown. Red light with lower energy photons cannot do that.

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True or false visibe light with the shortest wavelength is red light?

No, red is the longest wavelength of visible light, with the lowest frequency and the least energy. Violet light has the shortest wavelenght, with the highest frequency and the most energy (of visible light).


What is the oppersite of red?

To correct your selling, it is 'opposite', NOT 'oppersite'. Red is a colour at the long wavelength end of the spectrum . So its opposite is Blue a colour that is at the short wavelength ends of the spectrum.


What is the color spectrum made of?

The color spectrum is made from all the wavelengths of visible light, with red at the lowest frequency and violet at the highest frequency that can be seen. Visible light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum that also includes radio and microwaves up to X-rays and gamma rays.


Spectral lines of the Lyman and Balmer series do not overlap Verify this statement by calculating the longest wavelength associated with the Lyman series and shortest wavelength associated with the B?

Well, the different series represent different electronic transitions. But there is an important equation, the Rydberg formula which describes all of them.. I think you've learned of it since you mention the n values. This lead to the Bohr model of the hydrogen atom, which explained _why_ you had these levels.Or, almost. See, it turned out that those lines were not actually single lines, but several lines very close together.. And so they had to add more variables to describe how these levels-within-levels fit together.. and the answer to that eventually came from quantum mechanics.


Why does yellow appear yellow?

The human eye is sensitive to electro-magnetic waves, within a very narrow band. This is known as 'White light'. This very narrow range has differing wavelengths. Red being the longest wavelength and blue being the shortest wavelength. which we see in a yellow is between this long/short limits of wavelength , hence we see yellow. Sir Isaac Newton( he of gravity fame), in his treatise named 'Optics'. demonstrated the splitting of white light into the colours of the rainbow. Going from longest wavelength to shortest wavelength , the colours are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, violet, & indigo. Which we see in a natural rainbow in that order. The human eye is NOT sensitive to ultra-violet(UV) nor to infra-red, as they are just outside the sensitivity of the human eye.

Related Questions

What colour is the shortest wavelength of light?

Violet.


Which colour has the shortest wavelength in a prism?

Violet light has the shortest wavelength in a prism among the visible colors.


Why does the violet colour appear at the bottom of all colours of the rainbow?

Shortest wavelength.


What visible light that has the shortest wavelengths color?

Violet has the shortest wavelength


What is the fastest colour in the rainbow?

The fastest color in the rainbow is blue, as it has the shortest wavelength among the visible colors of the spectrum.


What color in the rainbow has the shortest wavelength?

Violet has the shortest wavelength in the visible light spectrum.


Is ultraviolet the shortest wavelength?

No. If the shortest wavelength is on the left end of the spectrum, the shortest wavelength is microwaves. if the shortest wavelength is on the right end of the spectrum, the shortest wavelength is gamma rays. I think it is microwaves because micro means small.


What has the shortest wavelength in radiation?

Gamma rays have the shortest wavelength in the electromagnetic spectrum.


What color of the spectrum has the second shortest wavelength?

According to (longest wavelength) ROYGBIV (shortest wavelength), it would be "indigo."


Which color have the shortest wavelength?

The color with the shortest wavelength is purple, sometimes called violet.


Which of the following color has the shortest wavelength?

Violet has the shortest wavelength while red has the longest.


What color out of red yellow and green has the shortest wavelength?

Green has the shortest wavelength of those.