Light Basics
Polarization and more
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Color
Grab Bag
100
Compared to the speed of sound, the speed of light is...
What is faster? (speed of light = 300,000,000 m/s)
100
Two polarized lenses held in the same direction to this to light.
What is transmit light or let light shine through?
100
The first color in the visible spectrum
What is red?
100
Blue and Green light combine to make this color
What is cyan?
100
What collegiate team defeated Creighton Sunday night 85-55 to advance to the sweet sixteen for the third time in five years?
Who are the Baylor Bears?
200
An object that can easily transmit light is called this.
What is transparent?
200
Two polarized lenses held in right angles to each other will do this to light
What is obscure/block or not let light shine through?
200
The last color in the visible spectrum
What is violet?
200
The three primary colors of light addition
What are red, blue, and green?
200
Mixing complementary colors of paint produce this color
What is black?
300
Visible light is just a tiny section of this spectrum.
What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
300
This is how 3D glasses are polarized
What is one lens vertical and one horizontal, or opposite of each other.
300
The highest energy in the EM spectrum
What is gamma?
300
Red and Green light combine to make this color
What is yellow?
300
The three paint colors that are useful for color subtraction
What are magenta, cyan, and yellow?
400
Compared to the speed of light in air, the speed of light in water is....
What is slower?
400
Light reflected from a lake surface is polarized this way
What is horizontally or parallel to the surface it reflected off of?
400
The lowest frequency wave in the EM spectrum?
What are radio waves?
400
The complementary color of blue
What is yellow?
400
This is what scientifically distinguishes the different colors of light
What are different frequencies?
500
Light is considered dual in nature, because it sometimes acts as both of these.
What is both a wave and a particle?
500
The direction of lenses in polarized sunglasses.
What is polarized vertically (so as to obscure the horizontally reflected light off of the ground)?
500
The EM range of light that is just above visible light.
What is Ultraviolet?
500
The reason the sky is blue.
Air molecules scatter blue light in all directions.
500
The color produced when mixing the three primary colors of light?
What is white light?
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