What is the color of a wave that has a frequency of 600.0 terahertz?
1 Answer
Dec 11, 2015
Green
Explanation:
A terahertz is
600 THz =
Let's convert this to nanometers and the look this up in a table to see what color our eyes would see. A nanometer is
Converting to nanometers is not strictly necessary, but as an optical astronomer, I have a better intuition for the color of things given in the wavelength of their light.
Where
Using the table here
we see that this is green light.