Spectrum Light Lab

Electromagnetic Spectrum is a name that scientists give a bunch of types of radiation when they talk about them as a group. Radiation is energy that travels and spreads out as it goes-visible light that comes from the lamp in your house and also radio waves that comes from a radio station. Other examples are microwaves, infrared and ultraviolet light, X-rays and gamma-rays.

If light from a gad element lets say like Neon, like from a neon sign passes through a glass prism. Then neon's atomic emission spectrum is produced.

The atomic emission spectrum of an element is the set of frequencies of the electromagnetic waves emitted by atoms of the element. Only certain colors paperer in an element's atomic emission spectrum means that only certain specific frequencies of light are emitted.

So if you look at elements atomic emission spectrum, it would look like the image above. so the certain colors that show for different elements, means the frequencies of the lights. From red to purple, red has the less amount of energy and purple have's the highest amount of energy.