X-rays

Key vocab:
•Radiographer-Anyone who works with x-rays.

How they're produced:

• They're produced by fast moving electrons.
• These electrons smash into a metal plate and x-ray's are emitted.

Properties:

• Travel at the speed of light
  ↳ Like all other waves on the electromagnetic spectrum.
• High frequency/high energy
• Short wavelength
  ↳ easily transmitted through the body.
• Is absorbed by dense materials (like bone) but transmitted by less dense materials like soft tissue and muscles.

Photographic paper:

• X-rays reacts with photographic paper turning it black.
• The white parts of x-ray images are caused because the x-rays have…