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The thickness of the plastic in plastic bags is about 0.002 mm. How many wavelengths of blue light is this? (Assume a wavelength of 475 nm for blue light.)
_____________wavelengths

2007-11-15 14:48:43 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous in Science & Mathematics Astronomy & Space

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What you need to know is how a milimeter relates to a nanometer to solve your question.

1mm = 1,000,000nm

Therefore .001mm = 1,000nm and .002mm = 2,000nm

The rest should be easy for you.

2,000 / 475 =

2007-11-15 15:05:12 · answer #1 · answered by Troasa 7 · 1 0

you ought to hunt for the electromagnetic spectrum. many times it incredibly is from purple at seven-hundred nm to violet at 4 hundred nm. 0.001 mm = one million,000 nm if purple has a wavelength of seven-hundred nm, then the plastic bag has in elementary terms a pair of million.4-one million.5 wavelength for purple mild

2017-01-05 14:26:52 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0 0

Blue light ranges from 400 nm to 480 nm . Where the plastic bag thickness is .oo2mm which is about 2000nm’s so ….
.000002/.000000400 = 5 and .000002/.000000480 = 4.16
so x being the thickness...
4.16 < x < 5

2007-11-15 15:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by TicToc.... 7 · 0 0

Just be careful with the units ...
1nm = 10^-9 meter; 1mm=10^-3 meter

N = .002mm / 475nm
= .002x10^6 nm / 475nm
~ 4.2

2007-11-15 14:59:21 · answer #4 · answered by halac 4 · 1 0

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