Visible Light Spectrum Flashcards

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What does each colour in the visible light spectrum have?

Its own narrow band of wavelength and frequency.

Which colour of visible light has the longest wavelength, and which has the shortest?

Red has the longest wavelength; violet has the shortest.

List the colours of the visible spectrum in order from longest to shortest wavelength.

Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.

Which colour of visible light has the highest frequency?

Violet — it has the shortest wavelength.

True or false? Red light has a higher frequency than blue light.

False. Red has the longest wavelength and so the lowest frequency of the visible colours.

True or false? White light is a mixture of all the colours of the visible spectrum.

True. It contains all the bands of wavelength and frequency of visible light.