Electromagnetic Waves

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This is a wave that is created as a result of vibration between an electric field and magnetic field.

Electromagnetic waves

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This is a combination of the electrically charged particles.

Electric Field

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This is the repeatedly moving or vibrating from one position to another that regularly change the direction.

Oscillate

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This is when light bounces off the surface causing the light threaten the same direction.

Reflection

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It is the bending of light which passes through one medium to another that is caused by the change in speed.

Refraction

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This is a disturbance in space.

Wave

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This is the distance between the two successive identical parts of the wave.

Wavelength

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This is the highest point of the wave.

Crest

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This is where the waves starts.

Origin

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This is the distance from the origin and the highest point of the wave or crest.

Amplitude

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This is the lowest point of the wave.

Trough

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This refers to the number of waves

Frequency

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He devised an experiment where he putted a thermometer each color from visible light to see the light temperature that led him to discover red light. (which led to the discovery of infrared light.)

Sir William Herschel

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Sir William Herschel is also best known for his discovery of what planet?

Uranus

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He is a german physicist who discovered the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.

Johann William Ritter

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He is a scottish physicist and mathematician who has responsible for the classical theory of electromagnetic radiation, which was the first theory to describe electricity.

James Clerk Maxwell

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He is a german physicist who first conclusively proved the existence of the electromagnetic waves proposed by james clerk maxwell's equation of electromagnetism.

Heinrich Hertz

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He is credited with discovering x-rays in 1895.

Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen

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Her hand is the first x-ray picture of the human body ever taken.

Mrs. Rontgen

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He discovered Gamma-rays in 1900

Paul Villard

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Paul Villard was investigating radiation from?

Radium