Understanding Visible Light and its Properties
Explore the fascinating world of visible light as a wave in the electromagnetic spectrum. Learn about the different colors of light, their corresponding wavelengths, and how white light can be separated into its full spectrum using a prism.
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One way to look at light is to describe it as a wave. Light waves do not need a medium to travel through, they can move through empty space. Visible light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
Different colours of light have different wavelengths: Red: 700 nanometers Orange: 600 nm Yellow:580 nm Green: 500 nm Violet: 400 nm
White light is made up of all the colours. When white light goes through a prism the different wavelengths bend by different amounts so when the light leaves the prism the white light is broken into the whole spectrum.
