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12 Cards in this Set
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The scientist who paved the way for our modern understanding of light when he discovered that white light is made of many colors.
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Sir Isaac Newton
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The colors of visible spectrum.
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combined colors of the rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet (ROY G. BV)
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A movement of energy from one place to another.
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A wave
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A back and forth motion that repeatedly follows the same path.
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Oscillation
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The high point of a wave; the low point of a wave.
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Crest; trough
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Whatever carries a wave
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Medium
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Waves that consist of vibrating electric and magnetic fields.
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Electromagnetic wave
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Speed of light.
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186,000 miles per second or 670 million miles per hour
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How fast a wave oscillates
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The behavior of an electromagnetic wave depends on its freqency
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The length of one complete wave or cycle of oscillation, measured from crest to crest or trough to trough
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The higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength.
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Electromagnetic waves were discovered in the 1800s by a brilliant Scottish scientist.
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James Clerk Maxwell
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The different types of electromagnetic waves, when arranged acccording to frequency and wavelenght, make up the
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Electromagnetic spectrum
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