EM Radiation

 describes in terms of a stream of particles, each travelling in a wave-like pattern and moving at
the speed of light
 makes EM waves transverse waves

EM Wave
 arrange in electromagnetic spectrum based on their frequency, wavelength, and photon energy
 an electrical and magnetic disturbance that moves through space at the speed of light

Types of Electromagnetic Radiation

Radio Waves
 have longest wavelengths and electromagnetic spectrum
 have wavelengths that range from less than a centimeter or tens or even hundreds of meters.
 can be used to transmit radio and television signal, mobile phones, magnetic resonance

Microwaves
 have very short wavelengths ranging from approximately one millimeter to 30 centimeters
 they are made by various types of transmitters an electronic device which, with the aid of an
antenna, produces radio waves
 can be used in telecommunication, such as mobile phones, fixed traffic speed camera, oven
cooking, radar, aircraft, navigation, terrain mapping, molecular research, long distance
communication
Infrared
 William Herschel discovered the existence of infrared by passing sunlight through a prism.
 sometimes called heat or thermal energy
 they can be used in heating and drying, night vision cameras, satellite remote sensing, remote
controls

Visible Light
 the portion of EM radiation that is visible to human eye
 given off by anything that is not enough to glow (light waves can be seen as the colors of
rainbow)
 red is the longest wavelength and violet is the shortest
 used as what the typical eye and film can see like visible light photography, lasers emitting visible
light like laser pointers, laser surgery and cutting of metals

Ultraviolet
 an EM radiation with a wavelength shorter than visible light but longer than x-ray
 produced by high-temperature surfaces, such as the sun
 can be used in photochemical and photo electric effects, hardening cast in medicines

X-rays
 high-energy waves which have great penetrating power and are used extensively in medical
applications like examination of bones, teeth, and vital organs, treatment for types of cancer;
crystallography, astrophysics.
 Overexposure to x-rays may lead to cancer such as leukemia

Gamma Rays
 these are more penetrating than x-rays
 generated by radioactive atoms and in nuclear explosions, and are used in many medical
applications like treatment for types of cancer, food irradiation.
 these can be used also in nuclear research, geophysics and mineral exploration.

Photon – particles contain a bundle of energy

Thermography – infrared radiation used to remote and determine the temperature of objects