Normal light that we see (like a flashlight) does not travel far underwater. Can infrared light travel farther?
2006-07-24 13:32:27 · 8 answers · asked by PourOneForMe 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Physics
No, water is even less transparent in the infrared. Water transmits best at the violet end of the spectrum, that's why water is blue and things look blue underwater.
2006-07-24 17:07:50 · answer #1 · answered by injanier 7 · 1⤊ 3⤋
Water absorbs more in the infrared part of the spectrum than in the visible part. Visible light travels farther in water than infrared light.
2006-07-24 14:08:37 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Light that is normally sensible is effected by particles that are normally sensory perceptable. In the ocean and many other waters the water has perceptable, sensible particles in it. Infrared in its pure form is not sensible to sight and sensory electronics are made for that purpose. As the machines of sensory electronics vary in quality, it is difficult to predict what would be perceptable and at what distance. Many things normally not sensible in normally sensible light become sensible using these machines. But, as water is denser than gaseous air, waters mass is greater per unit space and therefore is a greater impedance to energies in general, perhaps with the exception of electricity as it finds salty water conducts at a lesser resistence than pure water, pure water being a dielectric/non-conductor.
2006-07-24 14:16:07 · answer #3 · answered by Psyengine 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Actually it can, but only for a short distance. Any light waves can travel through water, but like visible light, it eventually gets absorbed.
2006-07-24 14:04:38 · answer #4 · answered by middleschool teacher 1 · 1⤊ 0⤋
it is because of the very incontrovertible certainty that transverse waves interior beverages and gases are not supported, provided that it is the *medium* it truly is being sheared. provided that it truly is amazingly confusing to shear a liquid (in result, you on the point of won't be able to by ability of definition) you won't be able to have a transverse wave. however, gentle, as has been reported already, does no longer want a medium to adventure. It slows down in secure media thinking that it is continually absorbed and remitted (refracted) by using atoms and molecules. So, extremely it might want to be however travelling in area, however colliding with atoms because it is going alongside. precis: it isn't the medium that contains the wave.
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2016-07-11 02:22:12 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
No it gets absorbed by water molecules. Think HEAT.
2006-07-24 13:41:35 · answer #7 · answered by willberb 4 · 0⤊ 1⤋
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2006-07-24 14:18:35 · answer #8 · answered by bee 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋