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I'm sorry if this isn't the correct place to put this...newbie alert. I'm absolutely horrible with Chemistry...I try really hard to do it, really I do, but a lot of the time, I only end up completely baffled and frustrated. Currently, I'm to be filling out a worksheet using a link provided in the lesson page (I'm cyber schooled) but the link is relatively short. I've read over it quite a few times but this stuff just doesn't make sense. I can't see what's being talked about and therefore I feel like I'm jumping into the middle of a subject that I missed the first half of...
Anyways...
Why do we refer to radiation as "electromagnetic"?
I'm supposed to read the info in this link http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/courses/spec/intro/em-rad.html" . Actually, for this first question, I was advised to read just the first paragraph entitled Electromagnetic Radiation.
Now, I've read that several times and it's making very little sense to me as, again, I can't see or even imagine what's being described. Would the first sentence be the answer to "why we refer to radiation as "electromagnetic"?
I looked this up elsewhere and only ended up confusing myself...There are different types of radiation, right? Not just "electromagnetic". I'm looking at a list and it has Thermal radiation, Synchrotron, Gravitational, etc. It has Electromagnetic radiation listed as "Stream of photons of a variety of different energies. At low frequencies, such as radio, it is common to regard the radiation as continuous rather than as photons."
Oh, I'm never going to get this... *Runs back into her English class*
Anyways...
Why do we refer to radiation as "electromagnetic"?
I'm supposed to read the info in this link http://www.chem.vt.edu/chem-ed/courses/spec/intro/em-rad.html" . Actually, for this first question, I was advised to read just the first paragraph entitled Electromagnetic Radiation.
Now, I've read that several times and it's making very little sense to me as, again, I can't see or even imagine what's being described. Would the first sentence be the answer to "why we refer to radiation as "electromagnetic"?
I looked this up elsewhere and only ended up confusing myself...There are different types of radiation, right? Not just "electromagnetic". I'm looking at a list and it has Thermal radiation, Synchrotron, Gravitational, etc. It has Electromagnetic radiation listed as "Stream of photons of a variety of different energies. At low frequencies, such as radio, it is common to regard the radiation as continuous rather than as photons."
Oh, I'm never going to get this... *Runs back into her English class*
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