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Ultraviolet light occurs just above the range of electromagnetc radiation that is detectable by the human eye and has a shorter wavelength than violet. This means it has a higher frequency since all light waves are presumed to travell at the same speed, whether visible to us or not.

To explain this in simple terms, if two trains are travelling at the same speed, and one has short cars and the other has long cars, the one with the short cars will pass by us more cars per minute than the one with the long cars. This is called frequency...the number of times something happens in a given time frame.

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velocity of light= frequency of light *wavelength of light

therefore wavelength =(3*10^8)/fequency

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The wavelength of light times the frequency of light is its speed, which is close to 2.9979*108 m/s in most mediums.

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Radio waves have much lower frequency / much greater wavelength than visible light has.

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Wavelength is speed / frequency.

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