Which color has the shortest wavelength and which color has the longest wavelength?
2006-11-18 01:55:28 · 3 answers · asked by high school kid 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Chemistry
Red has the longest. Violet is the shortest.
Just remember the ROYGBIV. Use the splitting of white light into rainbow colors method where light splits up as white light contains all the seven colors. In this experiment, the red light bends least in the prism while the voilet bends most as it travels slower.
The longer the wave length the faster it travels and the shorter the wavelength the the slower it travels. Because of this, we can deduce that red has the longer wavelength and violet has a longer wavelength.
Sorry, I am not in the right mind. Hope you understand...
2006-11-18 02:28:17 · answer #1 · answered by Bananamanao 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yep red has longest and violet has shortest
always remember colours on the left are shorter and as you go further to the right, wavelengths are longer
this applies to the whole electromagnetic spectrum
2006-11-18 10:09:34 · answer #2 · answered by town_cl0wn 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Red has the longest. Blue (or violet) the shortest.
2006-11-18 10:03:03 · answer #3 · answered by rb42redsuns 6 · 2⤊ 1⤋