Match wave to use

GCSE · Combined Science · Edexcel · CP15.1 — Applications across the EM spectrum: radio (broadcast), microwave (cooking, satellites), infrared (heating, remote sensing), visible (vision, fibre optics), UV (sunbeds, sterilisation), X-ray (medical imaging), gamma (cancer treatment, sterilisation)

Question

Edexcel Paper 2F (Foundation)

State the type of electromagnetic wave used for each of the following:

(a) Cooking food in a microwave oven (1 mark) (b) Imaging broken bones in hospital (1 mark) (c) Sending pictures from a satellite (1 mark) (d) Treating cancer (1 mark)

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