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Physics Optics Chapter 11 Test Flashcards

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What is light

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Light is an electromagnetic wave that can be detected by the human eye. Light is energy.

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What is a Medium

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any physical substance through which energy can be transferred

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What is an electromagnetic wave?

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A wave with both electric and magnetic parts that does not require a medium to transmit

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What is a wave

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A wave is a disturbance that transfers energy from one point to another without transferring matter

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What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

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The term used by scientists to describe the entire range of light that exists

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What is white light

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All colours of light in the visible light spectrum

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What are radio waves used for

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  • AM/FM signals
  • TV Signals
  • Cellphone communication
  • Radar
  • Astronomy (ie discovery of pulsars)
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What are microwaves used for?

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  • Telecommunications
  • Microwave Ovens
  • Astronomy (associated w the Big Bang )
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What is infrared light used for?

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  • remote controls
  • lasers
  • heat detection
  • keeps food warm
  • Astronomy (discovering chemical composition of celestial bodies)
  • Physio
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What is visible light used for?

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  • human vision
  • theatre/concert lighting
  • rainbows
  • visible lasers
  • astronomy (ex optical telescopes
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What is ultraviolet light used for?

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  • tan and sunburn
  • Increases the risk of developing skin cancer
  • production of vitamin D
  • “Black lights”
  • ultraviolet lasers
  • Astronomy (discovering chemical composition)
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What are X-Rays used for

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  • Medical imaging
  • Security equipment
  • Cancer treatment
  • Astronomy (study of star systems, black holes and centres of galaxies)
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What are gamma rays used for?

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  • Cancer treatment
  • Astronomy (study of nuclear porcesses)
  • is Product of a some nuclear decay
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What does Luminous mean?

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Something that produces its own light

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Source of light: Incandescence

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  • The production of light as a result of a high temperature
    Ex: Flame on a candle
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Source of light: Electric Discharge

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  • The process of of producing light by passing an electric current through a gas
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Source of Light: Phosphorescence

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  • Producing light light by the absorption of ultraviolet light and slowly releasing visible light at a lower energy. Over an extended period of time (Glow in the dark)
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Source of light: Flouresence

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  • The immediate emission of visible light as a result of the absorption of ultraviolet light.
  • When objects absorb ultraviolet light and immediately release the energy as visible like (ex fluorescent light bulbs, highlighter)
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Source of Light: Chemiluminescence

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A chemical reaction that directly produces light with little to no heat produced (glow sticks )

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Source of Light: Bioluminescence

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When living organisms produce light inside themselves as the result of a chemical reaction with little to no heat produced

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Source of light: Triboluminescence

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The production of light from the friction of certain crystals when theyre being scratched, rubbed together, or broken

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Source of light: Light-Emmiting Diodes (Led)

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Led is light production as a result of an electric current flowing in semi-conducters

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What is a visible spectrum?

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The continuous sequence of colours that make up white lights

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What does non luminous mean?

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Objects that do not produce their own light

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What is a semi-conductor
A material that allows electric current to flow in only one direction
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What is a light ray
A line on a diagram representing the direction and a path that light is travelling
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geometric optics?
The use of light rays to determine how light behaves when it strikes objects
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Incident light
Light emitted from a source that strikes object
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Transparent
When a material is clear, it transmits all or almost all incident light rays
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Transluscent
When a material transmits some incident light but absorbs and reflects the rest. Objects are seen but not clearly seen through the material
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Opaque
The object does not transmit any incident light, is either absorbed or reflected. Objects behind the mirror cannot be seen at all
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image
The reproduction of an object through the use of light
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Mirror
Any polished surface reflecting an image
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Plane
Flat
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Incident Ray
The incoming ray of light that strikes a surface
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reflected ray
The ray that bounces off a reflective surface
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Normal
The perpendicular 90 degree angle to a mirror surface
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Perpendicular
“At right angles”
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Angle of reflection
The angle between the reflected ray and the Norma,
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Specular reflection
Reflection of something off a smooth, flat surface
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Diffuse Reflection
Reflection of light off an irregular or dull surface
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Virtual image
And image formed by light coming from an apparent source, light that is not arriving at or coming from the actual image location
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Concave (converging) mirror
A mirror shaped like part of the surface of a sphere in which the inner surface is reflective
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Convex (diverging) mirror
A mirror shaped like that part of the surface of a sphere in which the outer surface is reflective
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Principle axis
The line through the Center of curvature to the midpoint of mirror
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Vertex
The point where the principal axis meets the mirror
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Real image
An image that can be seen on a screen as a result of light days actually arriving at the image locatiom
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Diverge
To spread apart
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Converge
To move to one point, to connect
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Name all types of waves
Radio waves, Micro waves, Infrared light waves, Visible light, Ultraviolet light waves, X-rays, Gamma rays waves
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Name all types of waves from lowest to highest energy levels
Radio waves, Micro waves, Infrared light waves, Visible light, Ultraviolet light waves, X-rays, Gamma rays waves
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Name all wave types from highest to lowest frequency
Gamma rays, X-rays, Ultraviolet light, Visible light, Infared light, Micro waves, Radio waves
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What are the two laws of reflection?
- Angle of reflection = angle of incidence - Angle of incidence = angle of reflection - The incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal to the surface of the mirror, all lie in the same plane
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If the angle between the reflected ray and the normal is 47 degrees, what is the angle of incidence?
47 degrees
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If the angle between the incident ray and the normal is 52 degrees what is the angle of reflection?
52 degrees
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If the angle between the incident ray and plane mirror is 14 degrees what is the angle of incidence and reflection?
76 degrees
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If the incident ray comes along the normal what is the angle of reflection and incidence?
0 degrees
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What is radiation
a method of energy transfer that does not require a medium the energy travels at the speed of light
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What is visible light?
Electromagnetic waves that the human eye can see
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What is the Visible spectrum
The continous sequence of colours that make up white light
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Non luminous
An object that doesnet produce its own light
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Semi-conductor
A material that only allows an electric current to flow in one direction
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Light ray
A line on a diagram representing the direction and path that light is travelling
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Geometric optics
The use of light rays to determine how light behaves when it strikes objects
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Incident light
Light emmited from a source that strikes object
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Transparent
A clear objet that allows almost all incident light to pass through it
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Transluscent
An object that transmits some incident light but absorbs and reflects the rest. this is semi-see through
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opaque
this object only absorbs and reflects light, you cannot see anything behind the material
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Image
reproduction of an object through the use of light
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Mirror
any polished surface reflecting an image
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Reflection
the bouncing back of light from a surface
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Plane
flat
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Incident ray
an incoming lightray that strikes a surface
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Reflected ray
a ray that bounces off a reflective surface
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Normal
The perpendicular 90 degree angle to a mirror surface
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Perpendicular
At right angles
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Specular refelction
The reflection of light off a smooth, flat, shiny surface
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Diffuse reflection
the reflection of light off a irregular or dull surface
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Virtual image
an image formed by a light coming from an apperent light source; light that is not arriving or coming from the actual image location images that are formed in locations where light does not actually reach.
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Concave (converging) mirror
A mirror shaped like the part of the surface of the sphere in which the inner surface is reflective
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Convex (diverging) mirror
A mirror shaped like the part of the surface of the sphere in which the outer surface is reflective
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Centre of curvature
the centre of the sphere whose surface has been used to make the mirror
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Principal axis
the line through the Center of curvature to the midpoint of the mirror
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Vertex
The point where the principal axis meets the mirror
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Real image
an image that can be seen on a screen as a result of light rays actually arriving at an image location
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Diverge
to spread apart
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Converge
lines that tend to merge together and meet at a point
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Name the wave types in order from lowest to highest energy
- radio waves - microwaves - Infared light - visible light - ultraviolet light - X-rays - gamma rays
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Name the wave types in order from lowest to highest frequency
- radio waves - microwaves - Infared light - visible light - ultraviolet light - X-Rays - Gamma Rays
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What is the highest part of the wave called
Crest
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What is the lowest part of the wave called?
Trough
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What is amplitude
The height of the wave
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