answersLogoWhite

0

Gamma rays.

User Avatar

Wiki User

9y ago

What else can I help you with?

Continue Learning about General Science

What part of the electromagnetic spectrum has the greatest frequency?

If by greatest frequency you mean highest frequency, we know that the upper end of the electromagnetic spectrum has the greatest frequency. This is the home to the gamma rays. They have the highest frequency, shortest wavelength, and the greatest energy.


Which wave in the EM spectrum has the shortest wavelength?

Gamma rays have the shortest wavelength. Electromagnetic wave is a kind of energy being propagated even through free space (vacuum). It is classified based on the mode of producing it as Radio waves, micro waves, infra red, visible, ultra violet, X-ray and Gamma ray. Out of these seven, radio waves have the lowest frequency and Gamma ray has the highest frequency. As frequency and wavelength are inversely related, radio wave would have the longest wavelength.


As you go from left to right across the spectrum what happens to the frequency and energy of the waves?

As you go farther right down the spectrum (radio waves, microwaves, infrared waves, visible light, ultraviolet light, x-rays, and gamma rays), the waves' wavelengths decrease as their frequencies decrease. For example, x-rays have a shorter wavelength and higher frequency than ultraviolet light. Radio waves on the left end have the longest wavelength and shortest frequency, while gamma rays on the right end have the shortest wavelength and highest frequency.


What are x-rays high or low frequency?

They're not comparable. -- Cosmic rays are high-energy charged particles moving at less than the speed of light, with mass and kinetic energy but no characteristic frequency or wavelength. -- Gamma rays are electromagnetic radiation.


What has the highest energy and longest wavelength?

Generically speaking, radio waves have the longest wavelength and gamma rays have the highest energy.

Related Questions

Which waves have the highest frequency?

Gamma rays emit the highest frequency.


Which rays have the highest frequency?

Gamma rays have the highest frequency among the electromagnetic spectrum. They have the shortest wavelengths and carry the most energy.


What are the highest frequency electromagnetic waves?

The highest frequency electromagnetic waves are gamma rays.


Which waves has the highest frequency?

the answer is gamma rays


What has the highest frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum?

There is no such thing as the highest frequency. Since photons or electromagnetic travel at the speed of light its frequency correlates to the energy. The highest energy, and thus the highest frequency, is found in cosmic radiation, where a single photon may carry many millions of kiloelectronvolts.


Which type of electromagnetic waves has the highest frequency?

Gamma Rays are the highest frequency waves. Lower than that are X-rays then Ultraviolet. Then visible light, infrared, microwave, and radio waves are the lowest frequency. Here is a link which gives more information http://imagine.gsfc.nasa.gov/science/toolbox/emspectrum1.html


What has highest frequency gamma rays infared waves or radio waves?

Gamma rays have the highest frequency among gamma rays, infrared waves, and radio waves.


What is the highest frequency in electromagnetic spectrum?

The highest frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum is gamma rays. Gamma rays have the shortest wavelengths and highest energy of all electromagnetic waves. They are produced by nuclear reactions and radioactive decay.


What types of radiation has the highest frequency?

In the electromagnetic spectrum Gamma radiation has the highest frequency.


What part of the em spectrum has the highest frequency?

The highest frequency in the electromagnetic spectrum is found in gamma rays. These rays have the shortest wavelengths and the highest energy levels of all electromagnetic waves.


What are the electromagnetic waves with the shortest wavelengths and the highest frequency called?

Gamma Rays


What form of radiation has the greater frequency?

Gamma rays have the highest frequency among the electromagnetic spectrum, followed by X-rays and ultraviolet rays.