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Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum. What Kind of Wave Is Light and What Vibrates to Make It? When an electric charge vibrates, the electric field.

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1 Light and the Electromagnetic Spectrum

2 What Kind of Wave Is Light and What Vibrates to Make It? When an electric charge vibrates, the electric field around it changes, creating a changing magnetic field. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=hajIIGHPeuU When a magnet moves, the magnetic field around it changes, creating a changing electric field.

3 The magnetic and electric fields create each other again and again. An EM wave travels in all directions. So…. what kind of wave is light?

4 What is Light Made of And How do We Know? Two Theories 1. Waves 2. Particles Photons!!

5 Double Slit Experiment – Thomas Young 1803

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7 What Types of Light Are There? The Electromagnetic Spectrum

8 R ed O range Y ellow G reen B lue I ndigo V iolet ROY G BIV How to Remember Order of Visible Light?

9 What Does Light Have To Do With Astronomy? Age? Composition?

10 Neon Argon Helium


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