The Electromagnetic Spectrum IV - Shorter Lambda than Microwaves
Written by Translator on June 6, 2008 – 8:40 pm -Obviously, it is not possible to touch every item that this vast subject holds, and I depend on readers to open up more frontiers. We barely scratched the surface about microwaves, but have to move to more energetic bands.
The infrared band lies just above the microwave, and just below the visible. Issac Newton discovered it by taking a thermometer and placing it in different spots on a projection of a spectrum of sunlight provided by a simple glass prism. He noted that there were area of higher temperature below the violet (now called ultraviolet) and above the red (now called infrared). These terms come from the natural distribution of a solar spectrum by a prism, the red being at the top of the graph.
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