What Do You Know About Infrared Radiation?
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- 1.Infrared radiation is sometimes called?
- A.
Infrared light
- B.
Electromagnetic field
- C.
Illumination
- D.
None of the above
- 2.It extends from the nominal red edge of the visible spectrum at?
- A.
650 nanometers
- B.
700 nanometers
- C.
859 nanometers
- D.
600 nanometers
- 3.Most of the thermal radiation emitted by objects near room temperature is?
- A.
Nanometer
- B.
Cathode ray
- C.
Ultra rays
- D.
Infrared
- 4.Like EMR, infrared radiation carried radiant energy and behaves like a?
- A.
Wave
- B.
Quantum
- C.
Photon
- D.
All of the above
- 5.Infrared was discovered in 1800 by astronomer Sir?
- A.
George Moore
- B.
George Washington
- C.
Allan Sugar
- D.
William Herschel
- 6.The astronomer discovered a type of invisible radiation in the spectrum lower in?
- A.
Rays
- B.
Energy
- C.
Light
- D.
None of the above
- 7.Slightly more than half of the total energy from the Sun was eventually found to arrive on Earth in the form of?
- A.
Ultra ray
- B.
Ultra violet
- C.
Radiation
- D.
Infrared
- 8.The balance between absorbed and emitted infrared radiation has a critical effect on Earth’s?
- A.
Movement
- B.
Weather
- C.
Climate
- D.
None of the above
- 9.Infrared radiation is emitted or absorbed by?
- A.
Atom
- B.
Photon
- C.
Oxygen
- D.
Molecule
- 10.Infrared radiation excites vibrational modes in a molecule through a change in the?
- A.
Dipole moment
- B.
Infrared
- C.
Atom
- D.
Sodium
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