Electro Magnetic Spectrum Fontana Chemistry period 3 December 3‚ 2012 James Clerk Maxwell discovered the electromagnetic spectrum in 1862. The electromagnetic spectrum is a map of all the types of light that can be identified. It classifies different types of light by wavelength to show how much energy the wave has. The more energy the wave has the shorter the wavelength and the less energy a waves has the longer the wavelength. Not all light is in the visible spectrum. There are many kinds
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Science Essay: We use the electromagnetic spectrum every day it’s the microwave you use to heat your food and the cell phones you use to text! Those are part of the Electromagnetic Spectrum. The light that our eyes can see is also part of the electromagnetic spectrum. This visible part of the electromagnetic spectrum consists of the colors that we see in a rainbow - from reds and oranges‚ through blues and purples!! The electromagnetic spectrum has 7 parts to it‚ radio waves‚ microwaves‚ infrared
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The electromagnetic spectrum The electromagnetic (EM) spectrum is just a name that scientists give a bunch of types of radiation when they want to talk about them as a group. Radiation is energy that travels and spreads out as it goes‚ visible that comes from a lamp in your house and radio waves that come from a radio station are two types of electromagnetic radiation. Other examples of EM radiation are microwaves‚ infrared and ultraviolet light‚ X-rays and gamma-rays. Hotter‚ more energetic
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The 1970s are identified as a particularly turbulent decade for American politics and culture‚ defined by singular events which forever transformed the country. Americans watched in their living rooms as the news revealed their president as a crook and a seemingly useless war ravaged a generation of men‚ searching for meaning and consolation. Flashing on colored screens‚ emblazoned in bold headlines‚ and crackling through radios‚ everyone from elite conservatives to baby boomers turned to media to
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The idea that children of divorced parents would be the ones who would suffer‚ was seen as conservative thinking and many scoffed at this notion in the 1970?s. What child would want to be part of a family that constantly fought? With the accepted idea of couples counselling a few years away many saw divorce as their only option. Because of this attitude‚ today there are fewer and fewer people under the age of 30 who are getting married than at any other time in history. The mistakes of the past generation
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The 1970s birthed a series of social and political movements. The opposition to the War in Vietnam that began in the 1960s grew a lot during the early 1970s. One of the best-known anti-war demonstrations was the Kent State shootings. In which national guard soldiers fired upon rioting students at the university. This event caused mistrust and shock throughout the country and became an example of anti-Vietnam demonstrations. Environmentalism also grew big in the seventies on April 22 1970 the United
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The political changes in democracy‚ republicanism‚ and liberalism have been thoroughly used to portray‚ in various ways‚ the development of the American political system. In particular‚ between 1824 and 1840‚ there existed a period of extraordinary growth and change for the United States. Still‚ Americans were able to effectively embrace the popular democracy while crises pertaining to popular rights dominated overseas. As a result‚ many economic and social variations transpired
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Political Systems There is a multitude of political systems in the world ranging from free democracies to authoritarian regimes. Of these‚ however‚ three in particular stand out. These are the presidential system of countries such as the United States‚ Mexico and select other Latin American countries; the parliamentary system of countries such as the United Kingdom‚ Canada and Germany; and the semi-presidential system of countries such as France‚ Finland‚ and Senegal. In actuality there are many
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Throughout the 1970s‚ the title of presidency was tarnished as Republican President Richard Nixon was forced to resign in 1974 due to the Watergate Scandal. Because of his connection to Nixon‚ Vice President Gerald Ford’s presidency was unpopular as well. Ford’s successor to the Oval Office‚ Democrat Jimmy Carter‚ had a rather unsuccessful presidency as he only won one term. While both political parties controlled the presidency during the 1970s‚ political scholars view this era of presidents as
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that made American society simultaneously more equal and less equal‚ and American culture still more individualistic‚ than they had been before” (Borstelmann‚ 18). In Thomas Borstelmann’s work‚ The 1970s: A New Global History from Civil Rights to Economic Inequality‚ he argues that previous scholarship and historians have looked at the 1970s as a decade of turmoil and uncertainty. While the 1960s and 1980s offered clear story lines and exciting social and political conflicts‚ the 1970s falls right
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