What is the frequency of radio waves with wavelength of 30 m in air on entering water?
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The electromagnetic spectrum consists of waves of many wavelengths ranging from very long wavelength radio waves to very short wavelength gamma rays. Visible light, consisting of short wavelength waves, is placed near the middle of this spectrum.
Visible light can pass through window glass, but a solid wall will absorb a portion of the light and reflect the remaining portions. Scientists would say that glass is transparent to visible light, but a wall is opaque.
Since the atmosphere is transparent to visible light (while absorbing some of the light), astronomers who use telescopes can see things from far away using visible light to form images.
Earth's atmosphere, however, acts an opaque barrier to much of the electromagnetic spectrum. The atmosphere absorbs most of the wavelengths shorter than ultraviolet, most of the wavelengths between infrared and microwaves, and most of the longest radio waves. For radio astronomers this leaves only short wave radio to penetrate the atmosphere and bring information about the universe to our Earth-bound instruments. The main frequency ranges allowed to pass through the atmosphere are referred to as the radio window. The radio window consists of frequencies which range from about 5 MHz (5 million hertz) to 30 GHz (30 billion hertz).