Properties, and Uses of Infrared Waves
- It has a range of wavelengths.
- Far infrared waves are thermal.
- Sunlight, fire, a radiator, or a warm sidewalk, these are all examples of infrared waves that are warm.
- You can't feel short infrared waves.
- Your TV's remote control would be an example of a short infrared waves.
- In 1800, William Herschel conducted an experiment measuring the difference in temperature between the colors in the visible spectrum.
- Infrared light lies between the visible and microwave portions of the electromagnetic spectrum. Infrared light has a range of wavelengths, just like visible light has wavelengths that range from red light to violet.
- Infrared waves are thermal.
- The heat that we feel from sunlight, a fire, a radiator or a warm sidewalk is infrared.
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