Ride the Wave
See the Light
Got My Eye on You
Optical Illusion
Mirror Mirror on the Wall
100

A transverse wave composed of an oscillating electric field and magnetic field that oscillates perpendicular to the electric field.

Electromagnetic wave

100
A type of material in which light passes through but makes objects appear fuzzy.

Translucent

100

Light that vibrates only in one direction.

polarized

100

Light is traveling through water and suddenly breaks the surface and travels through air. The light speed changed to this once it left the water. (increased, decreased, stayed the same)

Increased

100

One of two things that can happen when light travels from one substance to another. (Hint: this occurs in a mirror)

Reflection

200
This type of wave can travel through empty space.

Electromagnetic wave

200

These light waves have the highest frequency.

blue light
200

You would use this type of lens to focus light from a weak light source into a single point.

converging lens

200

Light waves cause these two fields to oscillate.

Magnetic field and electric field.

200

The 2nd of two things that can happen when light travels from one substance to another.

Refraction

300

This electromagnetic wave has the longest wavelength.

radio waves
300

When light travels through air and suddenly hits a glass window, this happens to the speed of the light when it enters the glass.

slows down

300

The eye changes the shape of this structure to change focus.

Lens

300
This theory states that nothing with mass can travel faster than the speed of light.

Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity

300

Infrared light is given off by any object that is losing heat.  The human body is almost always losing heat to the environment.  This is the reason why human bodies don't glow, even though they are emitting light.

Infrared light is not visible.

400

The theory that there are two transverse waves, one made of an oscillating magnetic field and the other an oscillating electric field.

Wave Theory of Light

400

The law that states that the angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence.

The Law of Reflection

400

Using the colors listed on the board, answer the following question: The color made when a computer monitor makes a green dot and then puts a blue dot in the same place.

Cyan

400

Using the colors listed on the board, answer the following question: You shine a red light on a yellow shirt.  This is the color that the shirt will appear. Assume the shirt color is done with dyes that use the subtractive primary colors.

Red

400

Light hits a mirror, making an angle of 15 degress relative to a line drawn perpendicular to the mirror's surface.  This is the angle that the reflected light will make with the same line (in degrees)

15 degrees

500

The theory that views a ray of light as a beam of individual particles called photons.

Particle Theory of Light

500

The theory that light is both a particle and a wave.

Quantum-Mechanical Theory

500

Using the colors listed on the board, answer the following question:The color made when cyan and magenta ink is mixed.

Blue

500

You are on a diving board looking down into a pool. You see a quarter at the bottom of the pool, about 3 feet in front of you. This is where the quarter is actually located. (closer or further away)

Closer

500

The reason why the sky looks blue on sunny days is because sunlight bounces off these molecules that are in the air.

water molecules

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