Friday, 2 October 2020

electromagnetic radiation - How do you measure wavelength/frequency of light


I'm sure this is a trivial question for someone who knows something about electromagnetic radiation, but: how do experimenters measure the wavelength/frequency of light? For example, how do we know that red light has $650-700~\text{nm}$ wavelength?




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