Hey, welcome back to another
MCAT Mnemonic Monday.
I'm Ken and I'm an MCAT expert
with MedSchoolCoach.
Today, we have a general
chemistry mnemonic for you and
it's on the electromagnetic
spectrum.
For the MCAT you need to have
the
order of the electromagnetic
spectrum memorized,
so if they give you any of
these radiations
you should be able to rank
them by frequency
or by wavelength.
Now the order that we have here
is from
lowest frequency on the top,
and highest frequency on
the bottom. That
means wavelength is the
opposite.
So we have the longest
wavelength on the top
and the shortest wavelength on
the bottom.
All right.
So from lowest to highest
frequency
we have radio waves,
microwaves,
infrared light, visible light,
ultraviolet
light, x-rays, and gamma rays.
Are mneumonic is: Raging
Martians
Invaded Venus Using X-ray
Guns.
So you can use that to help you
memorize the
order of the electromagnetic
spectrum.
And today we actually have a
bonus mnemonic for
you, and that is for the exam,
you need to know a little bit
more about visible light.
So visible light has a number
of colors and
from lowest to highest
frequency, we have
Roy G Biv.
So we used this fictional name,
Roy G
Biv, to be able to memorize
the
order of visible light from
lowest
to highest frequency.
So we have Red, Orange, Yellow,
Green, Blue, Indigo, and
Violet.
And this order should make
sense because a
violet is a right by
ultraviolet,
and red is right by infrared.
