wavelength
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- noun
- /ˈweɪv.lɛŋkθ/
- Specialized
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- In this experiment, we measured the wavelength from crest to crest of the sound wave.
- wavelength of light
- short-wavelength
- long-wavelength
Omega is change, but the wavelength really doesn't change.
- Omega is change, but the wavelength really doesn't change.
- It also stretches the wavelength of of light.
- A small frequency means a long wavelength, which means small energy.
- There's a shift in the wavelength, the colour of the light.
- It is colour, maybe even extended to invisible wavelengths, ultraviolet, infrared.
- The risk of that happening depends on the wavelength of the photons.
- The light wave gets stretched to longer redder wavelengths of light, so it gets redder.
- So how big is a wavelength of visible light?
- For that, you need to look at longer infrared wavelengths of light, so you need JWST.
- The electromagnetic equations permit radiation of any wavelength and of any frequency.
Examples
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So how big is a wavelength of visible light?
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A small frequency means a long wavelength, which means small energy.
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And so that means the wavelength is very small.
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In fact, we could actually work out at what wavelength that happens at.
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Students are asked what wavelength they think the video was made with.
Academic text (1999) -
Sam, what's the range of human vision? - Distance? - No, wavelength.
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But you put these plates so close together that the wavelength between the two plates is too small.
Fiction book (2000) -
There's a shift in the wavelength, the colour of the light.
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Each color has its own wavelength and affects our bodies and brains differently.
Academic text (2008) -
In other words, the shorter the wavelength, the more is the scattering.
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Etymology
Wavelength is made of wave and length and names the 'length' of one wave, the distance from one top of a wave to the next. So in science a wavelength tells how big or small a wave is, from sound and radio to visible light.