What is the color of light whose frequency is #5.21 * 10^14# cycles/sec.?

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Michael
Dec 4, 2015

Green/yellow

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#1"Thz"=10^(12)"Hz"#

(#1"Hz"=1# cycle per second)

So you can see that a frequency of #5.21xx10^(14)"Hz"=521"Thz"#.

If you look at the graphic you can see that this corresponds to a green/yellow colour. Maybe with a stronger tinge of green.

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