Student Handout: Using Spectroscopy to Find Life on Other Planets
Spectroscopy studies substance structures through light absorption and release. Understand how the wave and particle nature of light are utilized in spectroscopy to analyze the structure and composition of substances.
Topics
- nature of light
- optics
- astrophysics
- materials science
- wave-particle duality
- light absorption
- light release
- refraction of light
- photoelectric effect
- exoplanet
- SP2
- HS-PS4-1
- HS-PS4-3
- HS-PS4-5
- absorption
- diffraction
- dispersion
- electromagnetic spectrum
- energy
- frequency
- light curve
- photon
- spectrometer
- spectroscopy
- transmission spectroscopy
- transmitted
- wave-particle duality of light
- wavelength