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Describe the electromagnetic spectrum and explain how this energy reaches Earth?
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∙ 12y ago
Electromagnetic radiation (EMR) is strange. It is like waves in some ways, and it is like particles in some ways. EMR includes all light and radio waves, and other categories as well. One of the properties of EMR is that it does not need a 'medium' to move through. It can easily travel through vacuum. Other kinds of wave need a physical medium through which to propagate. So EMR of a wide range of frequencies is coming toward us from all points of the sky, traveling through the vacuum of space until it is absorbed by particles in space, in our atmosphere, or at the surface.
Dahlia Miller
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∙ 13y agoElectromagnetic radiation is strange. It is like waves in some ways, and it is like particles in some ways. EMR includes all light and radio waves, and other categories as well. One of the properties of EMR is that it does not need a 'medium' to move through. It can easily travel through vacuum. Other kinds of wave need a physical medium through which to propagate. So EMR of a wide range of frequencies is coming toward us from all points of the sky, traveling through the vacuum of space until it is absorbed by different particles in space, in our atmosphere, or at the surface.
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∙ 7y agoThe electromagnetic spectrum consists of energy radiated as waves, through matter or through open space. This radiation is in the form of sinusoidal waves composed of both electric and magnetic fields. The energy is contained in discrete packets of energy called photons, which can be scattered and quantized.
The rate at which the waves propagate is their frequency, and each type of energy within the spectrum has a frequency and a corresponding wavelength. The wavelengths are divided into ranges, including radio waves (the longest wavelength); microwaves; infrared, visible, and ultraviolet light; x-rays, and gamma rays (the shortest wavelength). Visible light has a wavelength from about 380 to 760 nanometers and a frequency from about 790 to 400 terahertz.
Electromagnetic energy can transfer energy from one location (source) to another location and may be absorbed to a varying extent by matter, which may re-radiate it in another form.
. A range of wavelengths or frequencies of electromagnetic radiation ~APEX
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∙ 12y agobecause the energy is heated from the sun
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What is the source of the electromagnetic energy that reaches earth from the sun?
the solar panals
What is the main type of Electromagnetic radiation that makes up the solar radiation that reaches earth?
Well techinichally it is just a radiation that comes from the sun and the readiation is a electromagnetic field
Is is it possible for an electromagnetic wave to travel through a vcuum?
Did you ever see the Sun, the Moon, or the Stars? The light that reaches us from them is an electromagnetic wave, and it travels through empty space.
Describe where and how the electricity that reaches your home is produced?
it goes through wires and into your home
How does energy reach the earth?
Energy, from the sun, reaches us in the form of electromagnetic radiation.
What terms describe a type of radiation that reaches the Earth from the Sun?
Electromagnetic waves, mainly visible light.
How radiant energy reaches the earth?
It reaches earth as an electromagnetic wave.
How you receive heat and light from the sun?
Energy from the Sun reaches Earth as radiation from various parts of the electromagnetic spectrum. Some of this energy . Some of this energy is converted to heat. Some remains as visible light.
Most of the sun's energy reaches earth as?
Electromagnetic radiation.
What is the source of the electromagnetic energy that reaches earth from the sun?
the solar panals
What form does suns energy have when it reaches earth?
The Sun's energy is given out mainly as "electromagnetic radiation". Light is a form of electromagnetic radiation. Heat is the main form the Sun's energy has when it reaches Earth, particularly the Earth's surface.
Why does the ultraviolet light coming from stars 13 billion years ago become infrared light when it reaches earth?
Its due to red shift - electromagnetic waves are shifted towards the red end of the EM spectrum. As the ultraviolet wavelength gets stretched it becomes infrared.
How does the heat from the sun reach your bodies?
The Sun's energy reaches Earth in the form of "electromagnetic radiation". Most of the heat is carried by the visible light, but there are other parts of the "spectrum" of radiation involved such as the infra-red. Much of the heat reaches you after being absorbed by the Earth in various ways and given out again. This heat contains a lot more infra-red than direct sunlight.
What is the main type of Electromagnetic radiation that makes up the solar radiation that reaches earth?
Well techinichally it is just a radiation that comes from the sun and the readiation is a electromagnetic field
What is the main type electromagnetic radiation that makes up the solar radiation that reaches Earth?
Well techinichally it is just a radiation that comes from the sun and the readiation is a electromagnetic field
What distance does electromagnetic radiation travel in 10.1fs?
The distance that electromagnetic radiation travels in 10.1 FS is the distance between the two points that it reaches. It can be different depending on how fast it is traveling.Ê
Is is it possible for an electromagnetic wave to travel through a vcuum?
Did you ever see the Sun, the Moon, or the Stars? The light that reaches us from them is an electromagnetic wave, and it travels through empty space.
