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Gamma rays are not radio waves.

Radio waves have frequencies in the range 3 kHz to 300 GHz (= 3*10^11 Hz). By contrast, Gamma rays are far more powerful, with frequencies of the order of 10 exaHertz (= 10^19 Hz).

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Does a radio wave or gamma ray have higher a amplitude?

A gamma ray has a higher amplitude than a radio wave. Gamma rays have shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies compared to radio waves, resulting in higher energy and therefore higher amplitudes.


What is the complete spectrum of electromagnetic wave frequencies and wavelengths?

The electromagnetic spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. These waves range from the longest wavelengths (radio waves) to the shortest wavelengths (gamma rays), with corresponding frequencies ranging from the lowest (radio waves) to the highest (gamma rays).


What are electromagnetic waves with the longest wave lengths and the electromagnetic waves with the shortest wave lengths?

The longest wavelength corresponds to long wave radio, I think the longest used is about 2000 meters. The shortest are gamma rays, which occur in radioactivity, these are from about 10-11 meters down.


How the wave lenght and radio vary from gamma rays?

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Are gamma rays transverse?

Yes, gamma rays are transverse electromagnetic waves, meaning the oscillations of the waves are perpendicular to the direction of their propagation. This is similar to other forms of electromagnetic radiation like visible light and radio waves.

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Does a radio wave or gamma ray have higher a amplitude?

A gamma ray has a higher amplitude than a radio wave. Gamma rays have shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies compared to radio waves, resulting in higher energy and therefore higher amplitudes.


Which has more energy radio wave or x rays?

A gamma wave has more energy than a radio wave.


Which form of radition form the sun has the shortest?

When it comes to radiation from the sun, the type that has the shortest wave length is known gamma rays. A type of wave that is longer than gamma rays is radio rays, which go for a considerable distance.


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.


What are gamma and x-rays?

Gamma and x-rays are two types of rays on the electro magnetic spectrum. The amount of energy used by the rays increases as you go up the electro magnetic spectrum. The weakest of the rays is a radio wave and the strongest is the gamma which will penetrate lead.


What is the complete spectrum of electromagnetic wave frequencies and wavelengths?

The electromagnetic spectrum includes radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. These waves range from the longest wavelengths (radio waves) to the shortest wavelengths (gamma rays), with corresponding frequencies ranging from the lowest (radio waves) to the highest (gamma rays).


What has wavelengths longer than visble light?

Ultra-violet, short-wave radio waves, x-rays, gamma rays, cosmic rays


Among sound waves light waves X rays Gamma rays and radio waves what is fundamentally different from the others?

Sound wave.


Who has a lower frequency gamma ray infrared wave radio wave or visible light?

Gamma ray


Can you compare the distance traveled by photon in gamma rays with the distance traveled in radio wave?

A wave length of gamma rays is 10 raised to minus 12. Means 1/1,000,000,000,000 meter. It means, you have 1,000,000,000,000, waves of gamma rays in one meter. Wave length of radio wave is 1000 meters. Speed of both of them same. So roughly, you take the speed of radio wave as straight line, forsimplicity of calculation. And straighten the gamma rays it would be minimum 1,000,000,000,000 times the speed of radio wave. ( Here you have taken length of radio wave 1000 times less, it means only 1 meter to correct the effect of straitening it, to be on safer side.) If you know the amplitude ofelectromagneticwave, you can get the unimaginable figure. In threedimensionalspace, wave may be traveling like spring and not as you draw on paper. Probably magnetic wave travel like coating on insulated wire. Which will be perpendicular to 'electric' wave. In that case, it should bechallenging task formathematiciansto calculate the length of such spiral wave.Probably something iscompressing the gamma rays to very small wave, so that speed of electromagnetic wave be a constant. The photons with maximum energy travel as a gamma rays. Then as gradually energy in photon decreases, it's wave length increases. It is a 'spectrum' and for your convenience that you have given them different names. Like gamma rays, x-rays, ultraviolet rays, light rays, infra-red, microwaves and radio waves etc. So better you wait for the edit of this answer by expert in this subject.


What are electromagnetic waves with the longest wave lengths and the electromagnetic waves with the shortest wave lengths?

The longest wavelength corresponds to long wave radio, I think the longest used is about 2000 meters. The shortest are gamma rays, which occur in radioactivity, these are from about 10-11 meters down.


Do light waves or gamma rays have shorter wave lengths?

I assume by light rays, you mean visible light rays. In this case, gamma rays have shorter wave lengths.