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EM Spectrum and Its Applications

This document discusses different types of electromagnetic waves including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. It describes their properties such as wavelength, frequency, whether they are ionizing or non-ionizing, and examples of applications such as GPS, RADAR, remote controls, security markings, MRI, cellular networks, night vision, and cancer radiotherapy treatment. The key characteristics of electromagnetic waves are that they do not require a medium to travel and that wavelength and frequency are inversely related, with smaller wavelengths corresponding to higher frequencies.

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EM Spectrum and Its Applications

This document discusses different types of electromagnetic waves including radio waves, microwaves, infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays. It describes their properties such as wavelength, frequency, whether they are ionizing or non-ionizing, and examples of applications such as GPS, RADAR, remote controls, security markings, MRI, cellular networks, night vision, and cancer radiotherapy treatment. The key characteristics of electromagnetic waves are that they do not require a medium to travel and that wavelength and frequency are inversely related, with smaller wavelengths corresponding to higher frequencies.

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1. It is the ENTIRE range of EM waves in order of increasing frequency and decreasing wavelength.

Ans: EM Spectrum
2. A wave that has the longest wavelengths and the lowest frequencies.
Ans: Radiowaves
3. These are the waves in the EM spectrum that humans can see.
Ans: Visible light
4. These wave has enough energy to penetrate deep into tissues and cause damage to cells; are
stopped by dense materials, such as bone.
Ans: X-rays
5. Carry the most energy and have the shortest wavelengths, less than one trillionth of a meter
Ans: Gamma rays
6-9. What are the EM waves that belongs to Non-ionizing radiation?
Ans: Radiowaves, Microwaves, Infrared, Visible light
10-12. What are the EM waves that belongs to ionizing radiation?
Ans: Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma ray
13-19: What are the 7 colors that found in visible light?
Ans: Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
20. It is a space-based navigation system that provides geographical position and
time information anywhere on or near the earth.
Ans: Global Positioning System (GPS)
21. It is a detection system used to determine the range, angle or velocity of objects.
Ans: RADAR (Radio Detection and Ranging)
22. It uses LED lights to transmit signals to control devices and emits pulses of invisible infrared
light.
Ans: Remote control (IR remote)
23. It is a sensitive documents such as credit cards, banknotes, and passports include a UV
watermark that is only seen under UV emitting light.
Ans: Security markings.
24. It is a process of disinfection that can be used to remove most forms of microbiological
contamination from water.
Ans: Sterilization
25. It is a medical imaging technique that uses powerful magnets, computer and radio waves to
make detailed pictures inside your body.
Ans: Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI)
26. It is a system where cellular phones depend on overlapping network of cells.
Ans: Terrestrial communication
27. It use thermal imaging technology to capture the infrared light being emitted as heat by
objects in the field of view.
Ans: Night vision google
28. A cancer treatment that uses high doses of radiation to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors.
Ans: Radiotherapy
29. EM waves do not require ____________ in which to travel or move.
Ans: media/medium
30. Inverse relationship between wave size and frequency: as wavelengths get smaller,
frequencies get _______
Ans: Higher

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