Question:
Help with radiation question?
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2013-02-23 08:27:39 UTC
Please could anyone list the electromagnetic radiations in order of the energy transferred by each photon or in order of frequency? Any help would be great.
Four answers:
anonymous
2013-02-23 08:52:12 UTC
the last poster seems to have made a mistake when writing the list...o.o microwave and RADIO** (sorry, i had uv here lol, obviously uv is nowhere near microwave) should be switched in that list, microwaves are technically radio waves, but they are the highest-energy radio waves, and usually they're broken out! anyway, they certainly shouldn't be written as being lower than radio!



anyway, the basic list is as follows (tho you can break up each component of the spectrum into as many sub-spectra as you like):



Gamma-ray

X-ray

Ultraviolet

Visible Light

Infrared

Microwave

Radio



note that the top two are almost always listed like that, but actually physically, the difference is in the source of the photon. x-rays are emitted by electrons, while gamma rays come directly from the nucleus. of course, since the nucleons are a lot more massive than electrons, gamma rays are usually more energetic than x-rays, but some very relativistic electrons in some of the upper orbitals can produce x-rays that can be higher in energy than gamma-rays, so there can be exceptions!



hope this helps!!! :)
Let'slearntothink
2013-02-23 08:33:58 UTC
Cosmic rays(photons) Energy GeV

Gamma rays: MeV

Hard X-rays: 10 -100 keV

Soft x-rays `1keV to 10keV

Ultra violet

visible

Infrared,

Radio waves

microwave UHF

VHF and so on
anonymous
2016-11-29 07:41:30 UTC
i for my area choose to comprehend what telephone water is. yet you're very surprising to complication. Radiation is everywhere. did you recognize which you would be able to pop popcorn with the radiation from elementary bananas? there's a video of it floating around. wj--any skipping is by using temporal disturbances from the apples on the fruit basket next to the banana. i've got measured the end result on apples, pomegranites, and kiwi fruit. in case you choose a clearner video, pop the corn removed from the basket with the the remainder of your fruit.
Hakuna Matata
2013-02-23 08:33:47 UTC
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