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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
This is a combination of the electrically charged particles.
Electric Field
This is the repeatedly moving or vibrating from one position to another that regularly change the direction.
Oscillate
This is when light bounces off the surface causing the light threaten the same direction.
Reflection
It is the bending of light which passes through one medium to another that is caused by the change in speed.
Refraction
This is a disturbance in space.
Wave
This is the distance between the two successive identical parts of the wave.
Wavelength
This is the highest point of the wave.
Crest
This is where the waves starts.
Origin
This is the distance from the origin and the highest point of the wave or crest.
Amplitude
This is the lowest point of the wave.
Trough
This refers to the number of waves
Frequency
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
Sir William Herschel is also best known for his discovery of what planet?
Uranus
He is a german physicist who discovered the ultraviolet region of the spectrum.
Johann William Ritter
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
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
He is credited with discovering x-rays in 1895.
Wilhelm Conrad Rontgen
Her hand is the first x-ray picture of the human body ever taken.
Mrs. Rontgen
He discovered Gamma-rays in 1900
Paul Villard
Paul Villard was investigating radiation from?
Radium