Physics GCSE
Limited range of human vision
What Limited range of human vision means in Physics GCSE, as defined for OCR.
Definition of Limited range of human vision
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Reference: OCR
Our eyes can only detect a limited range of the electromagnetic spectrum, responding to only a small slice of it.
Topics that use Limited range of human vision
- The electromagnetic spectrum (OCR GCSE)
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