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We have looked at the relative sizes of different waves, but how big are these waves in real life? There is a huge range in the size of electromagnetic waves: some are bigger than a house, and others are smaller than a grain of sand. Here’s a diagram that shows some everyday objects to help us visualize the size of these wavelengths.
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Click the EM spectrum to enlarge the image and get a sense of scale of the sizes of different wavelengths. Drag and drop each EM wave to the object that best represents the size of its wavelength.