Electromagnetic Radiation and Electromagnetic Spectrum | X-ray physics | Radiology Physics Course #7
Summary
TLDRThis script delves into the principles of electromagnetic force and radiation, illustrating how currents induce magnetism and vice versa. It introduces the electromagnetic spectrum, highlighting the inverse relationship between wavelength and frequency. The script explains the nature of visible light, infrared, microwaves, radio waves, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays, emphasizing the ionizing capability of the latter due to their high energy. It also discusses the structure of electromagnetic waves, their self-propagation at the speed of light, and their transverse movement. The concept of wave-particle duality is introduced, with the photoelectric effect exemplifying the particle-like behavior of electromagnetic waves. The script sets the stage for an X-ray physics module, offering a foundational understanding of the subject.
Takeaways
- 🌐 The electromagnetic spectrum is organized by wavelength and frequency, with wavelength increasing and frequency decreasing as you move up the spectrum.
- 🔄 Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional, meaning as one increases, the other decreases.
- 👀 Visible light, which our eyes can see, is in the middle of the spectrum, ranging from about 700 nanometers to just below 400 nanometers.
- 🌈 The electromagnetic spectrum is divided into categories such as infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, and gamma rays based on wavelength.
- 🚫 X-rays and gamma rays have high enough frequencies and energies to ionize atoms, making them ionizing radiation, unlike visible light.
- 🌊 Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves, with the direction of energy movement perpendicular to the wave itself.
- 🛰️ Electromagnetic waves, including radio waves and X-rays, travel at the speed of light in a vacuum, independent of their frequency or wavelength.
- 🌀 The structure of an electromagnetic wave is consistent across the spectrum; only the wavelength and frequency vary.
- 🤔 Electromagnetic radiation exhibits wave-particle duality, meaning it can act as both a wave and a particle, as demonstrated by the photoelectric effect.
- ⚡ The energy of an electromagnetic wave is directly proportional to its frequency and is quantized, as shown by the equation E = hν, where h is Planck's constant.
- 🔬 Understanding electromagnetic radiation is crucial for studying X-ray physics, as X-rays are a form of electromagnetic radiation.
Q & A
What is the relationship between the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves?
-The wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves are inversely proportional to each other. As the wavelength increases, the frequency decreases, and vice versa.
How is the electromagnetic spectrum oriented in the provided script?
-The electromagnetic spectrum is oriented vertically in the script, with wavelength increasing as you move up the diagram and frequency decreasing.
What is the range of wavelengths for visible light within the electromagnetic spectrum?
-Visible light ranges from about 700 nanometers to just below 400 nanometers, covering the spectrum from red to violet.
What are the categories of the electromagnetic spectrum based on wavelength?
-The categories include visible light, infrared, microwaves, radio waves, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays, each with different wavelength ranges.
Why are X-rays and gamma rays considered ionizing radiation?
-X-rays and gamma rays have high enough frequencies and energies to release electrons from atoms, which is known as ionization.
What is the speed at which electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum?
-Electromagnetic waves travel through a vacuum at the speed of light, which is a constant speed for all types of electromagnetic radiation.
How does the amplitude of an electromagnetic wave relate to its intensity?
-The amplitude of an electromagnetic wave represents its intensity, and it is generally proportional to the number of photons in the radiation.
What is the nature of electromagnetic waves in terms of their propagation?
-Electromagnetic waves are self-propagating and transverse in nature, meaning the direction of energy movement is perpendicular to the wave movement.
What is the concept of wave-particle duality as it applies to electromagnetic radiation?
-Wave-particle duality refers to the concept that electromagnetic radiation can exhibit properties of both waves and particles, as demonstrated by phenomena like the photoelectric effect.
How does the energy of an electromagnetic wave relate to its frequency?
-The energy of an electromagnetic wave is directly proportional to its frequency, as described by the equation E = hν, where E is energy, h is Planck's constant, and ν is frequency.
What did scientists observe during the photoelectric effect experiment that supports the wave-particle duality of electromagnetic waves?
-Scientists observed that even at the smallest intensity, increasing the frequency into the range of X-rays would release an electron from a metal sheet, indicating that the waves were acting as particles with discrete packets of energy and mass.
Outlines
🌌 Electromagnetic Radiation and the Spectrum
This paragraph introduces the concept of electromagnetic radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum. It explains how the movement of currents can induce magnetism and vice versa, leading to the generation of electromagnetic waves. The spectrum is depicted as a vertical diagram where wavelength increases and frequency decreases as we move up the scale. Visible light is situated in the middle of the spectrum, flanked by infrared and ultraviolet light, with X-rays and gamma rays at the high-frequency, short-wavelength end. The paragraph also touches on the wave-particle duality of electromagnetic radiation, emphasizing the quantized nature of energy and the photoelectric effect, which demonstrates the particle-like behavior of light.
🌐 The Nature of Electromagnetic Waves
The second paragraph delves deeper into the properties of electromagnetic waves, describing them as self-propagating transverse waves that do not require a medium for transmission, unlike ultrasound waves. It highlights the dual nature of electromagnetic radiation, which can be thought of as both waves and particles. The wave-particle duality is exemplified by the photoelectric effect, where light behaves as discrete packets of energy and mass, releasing electrons from a metal surface when the frequency is high enough. The paragraph also discusses Planck's constant and its role in quantifying the energy of electromagnetic waves, which is directly proportional to the frequency of the wave and a multiple of a constant, indicating the quantized nature of energy.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Electromagnetic Force
💡Electromagnetic Radiation
💡Electromagnetic Spectrum
💡Wavelength
💡Frequency
💡Visible Light
💡Infrared
💡Ionizing Radiation
💡Amplitude
💡Transverse Wave
💡Wave-Particle Duality
💡Photoelectric Effect
💡Planck's Constant
Highlights
The movement of currents or electricity can induce magnetism, and the movement of magnetism can induce current.
Introduction to electromagnetic radiation and the electromagnetic spectrum in the context of an X-ray Physics course.
The electromagnetic spectrum can be oriented vertically to understand the relationship between wavelength and frequency.
Wavelength and frequency are inversely proportional; as one increases, the other decreases.
Visible light is in the middle of the electromagnetic spectrum, with wavelengths ranging from 700 to 400 nanometers.
Infrared, microwaves, and radio waves are categories of electromagnetic waves with longer wavelengths beyond red light.
Ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays are categories with shorter wavelengths and higher frequencies below violet light.
X-rays and gamma rays have high enough frequencies and energies to ionize atoms, releasing electrons.
The construction of an electromagnetic wave includes wavelength, frequency, and amplitude.
Electromagnetic waves are self-propagating and travel at the speed of light in a vacuum.
Electromagnetic waves are transverse waves, moving perpendicular to the direction of wave energy.
Electromagnetic radiation consists of two orthogonal transverse waves, demonstrating the electromagnetic force in action.
Electromagnetic radiation exhibits wave-particle duality, acting as both a wave and a particle.
The photoelectric effect demonstrates the particle nature of electromagnetic waves, releasing electrons from metal.
The energy of an electromagnetic wave is proportional to its frequency and quantized, represented by Planck's constant.
A question bank of X-ray physics related questions is available for those interested in further study.
The importance of understanding electromagnetic radiation in the study of X-ray physics.
Transcripts
in the previous talk we looked at the
electromagnetic force and how the
movement of currents or the flow of
electricity could induce magnetism and
how the movement of magnetism could
induce current and that leads us nicely
to looking at electromagnetic radiation
and the electromagnetic spectrum as we
segue now into our x-ray Physics course
proper so the electromagnetic spectrum
can be drawn in many different ways and
I like to orientate it vertically like
this I find it much easier to understand
now you'll see our electromagnetic
radiation or our electromagnetic wave
through the center of this diagram now
as we head up on this diagram we see the
wavelength the distance between
successive peaks in the wave increases
as we head up not only does the
wavelength increase as we head up but
our frequency or the number of cycles of
waves per second decreases as we head at
this diagram
as we had lowered down in the diagram
our frequency increases the number of
waves passing through a particular point
over a period of time increases and our
wavelength decreases we can see they're
inversely proportional to one another
now the wave itself is exactly the same
the structure of the wave is the same
only the wavelength and frequency is
changing here now we can divide this
spectrum into multiple different
categories depending on the wavelength
of these waves you'll see in the middle
of this spectrum is visible light
running from about 700 nanometers to
just below 400 nanometers we've got
Violet extending all the way up to Red
here now this is the most common
electromagnetic frequency within our
universe and our eyes have adapted to
see this electromagnetic radiation and
what we call Visible lines now luckily
above the red part of the spectrum we've
named that infrared these wavelengths
are in the region of micrometers as that
wavelength gets longer into the region
of centimeters we call those microwaves
and as it gets longer into the region of
meters we call those radio waves if we
go below the Violet part of the spectrum
We Now call that ultraviolet light not
visible light to our eyes the frequency
has increased our wavelength has
decreased as we then increase our
frequency further we then classify those
waves as X-rays and as that wavelength
gets slightly shorter we call that gamma
rays now as we're going to look at as
frequency increases the energy of that
wave increased and in our previous talk
we were looking at binding energy of an
electron within an atom and binding
energy was the energy required to
release that electron from an atom and
the release of an electron from an atom
is what's known as ionization we've
ionized that atom and it turns out that
X-rays and gamma rays their frequencies
are high enough their energies are high
enough to release electrons from atoms
and we call this ionizing radiation
visible light and up does not have
enough energy to ionize atoms
so let's have a look at the construction
of an electromagnetic wave and get a
couple of definitions out the way first
we can see this wave is traveling along
our x-axis here through space and we can
see the wave is perpendicular to the
direction of its flow now the distance
between successive peaks in the wave is
what's known as the wavelength we
generally measure that in meters our
wavelength the number of waves that pass
a particular point over a period of time
is known as the frequency of the wave
and our amplitude of the wave here
represents the intensity of that wave
and generally when we're talking about
electromagnetic radiation the amplitude
is proportional to the number of photons
in that electromagnetic radiation
now as I've said radio waves microwaves
X-rays and gamma rays the wave itself
the construction of the wave is exactly
the same the only thing that changes is
the wavelength and the frequency
now electromagnetic waves are
self-propagating waves as I'm going to
show you now and they travel through a
vacuum at a constant speed and that's
the speed of light it doesn't require a
medium to propagate itself propagates so
this light can travel in a vacuum so
radio waves and x-rays travel at the
same speed and our velocity here is
exactly the same for all electromagnetic
radiation going through a vacuum this is
the speed of light so if our velocity is
staying the same our frequency and our
wavelength need to be inversely
proportional as our frequency increases
our wavelength needs to decrease in
order to keep our velocity the same
now electromagnetic waves are what is
known as transverse wave that's because
the movement of energy or the direction
of the wave is perpendicular to the
movement of those waves and if you see
how this wave travels a long time in
space and we take a particular point in
that wave and watch what that point does
that point will go up and down like this
so let's have a look at this now we can
see that as the wave travels this point
will go up and back down perpendicular
to the movement of that wave you see how
it's going like that
now we can get longitudinal waves where
the molecules move in the same direction
as the propagation of the wave and we're
going to look at that in closer depth
when we look at our ultrasound waves but
the movement here in electromagnetic
radiation is transverse to the movement
of the wave
now in fact electromagnetic radiation is
not as simple as I've shown you there
it's in fact two transverse waves that
are orthogonal to one another they lie
at 90 degrees to one another and this is
where our Concepts from the
electromagnetic force come into play
I've shown you before that the movement
of current the movement of the electric
wave here represented in yellow induces
magnetism induces this magnetic wave
here represented in blue the movement of
magnetism induces current this is why
this is a self-propagating wave
electromagnetic radiation can travel
without the need for a medium when we
look at ultrasound we'll see that a
medium is required in order for an
ultrasound wave to propagate but because
this photon is self-propagating this
does not require a medium to travel
now electromagnetic radiation gets
further complicated not only is it two
orthogonal transverse waves but we can
actually think of electromagnetic weight
radiation as a particle it acts both as
a wave and as a particle and this is
what's known as wave particle duality
now electromagnetic waves act as waves
they diffract they interfere with one
another but there are certain set of
experiments that show these waves also
acting as particles now throughout this
x-ray module we're going to look at a
concept called the photoelectric effect
and it was actually the photoelectric
effect that showed these waves acting as
particles what scientists did was they
took a sheet of metal and they Shone
visible light on their sheet of metal
now if electromagnetic waves were to act
purely as waves we would expect as we
increase the intensity of that light we
increase the amplitude of that wave we
would think the energy would go up and
there would be enough energy to release
an electron from that metal and when
scientists did that there was no release
of electron what they noticed was when
they increase the frequency into the
range of x-rays even the smallest
intensity of X-ray would release an
electron and it showed now these waves
acting as particles as discrete packets
of energy and mass and it turns out a
world is quantitized electromagnetic
radiation can both act as a wave as well
as a particle and when we are
calculating the energy of a wave here we
can see that the energy of the wave is
proportional to the waves frequency as
the frequency of that wave increases so
does the energy but you can see that the
amplitude of the wave is not included in
this equation it doesn't matter the
intensity of the light the number of
photons of light doesn't increase the
wave's inherent energy
you may notice here that we are also
multiplying by this letter H and this is
known as Planck's constant so you can
see that energy is not only proportional
to frequency but it's also a multiple of
a constant and the fact that it's a
multiple of a constant speaks to the way
that energy is also quantitized so
electromagnetic radiation can act both
as a wave and as a particle and this is
known as wave particle duality
so it's really important to understand
the electromagnetic radiation especially
when looking at x-ray physics after all
x-rays are electromagnetic radiation so
this is a good place to start our x-ray
physics module and if you want to get
access to a question Bank of X-ray
physics related questions that have come
up in past papers see the first line of
the description below I've curated a
bunch of X-ray physics questions for you
that have come up in multiple different
exams over the last 10 years so check it
out if you want otherwise I'll see you
for our overview of X-ray physics in the
next talk goodbye
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