Vocabulary
This word means light bounces off a surface.
What is reflect?
For you to see an object, this must reach your eye.
What is light?
This is the part of the box-model system we changed during the investigation.
What are the light conditions?
On the Mr. Bean quiz, your model should include these two kinds of light paths.
What are reflected and transmitted light?
The color of light coming from the sun.
What is white light?
This word means light passes through a material
What is transmit?
Complete the light path for how we see a tree through a window: Sun → tree → glass → _____.
What is the observer’s eye?
The one-way mirror effect is usually strongest under these light conditions.
strongest under these light conditions.What is one side bright and the other side dark?
The two things that could be changed with the single bulb Phet simulation.
What is the filter and the bulb color?
The color we perceive when all colors are absorbed.
What is black?
This word means light energy is taken in by matter
What is absorb?
How a one-way mirror is made.
What is a mixture of very thin metal and glass that make some parts transparent and other parts reflective?
What was seen when both sides had similar amounts of light.
Both a reflection and the other room (light was transmitted).
If we wanted the three detectives to see their reflection and Mr. Bean to see the detectives, what needed to change?
What is have a light in room B and darkness in room A?
The color we perceive when all colors are reflected.
What is white?
This is why we see a rainbow.
What is refraction through raindrops (or bending white light into all the colors)?
A student draws a light arrow from the eye toward the object. Explain the mistake.
What is light travels toward the eye, not out from it?
In order for the detectives to see Mr. Bean through the one-way mirror, follow complete the light path:
light --> __________ --> one-way mirror --> detective's eye
What is Mr. Bean?
How a pair of sunglasses interacts with light.
What is transmit, absorb, AND reflect?
The reason we perceive black when blue light shines at a red filter.
What is because the blue light is absorbed by the red filter?
The difference between transparent and translucent.
What is transparent lets nearly all light pass through while translucent only lets some light pass through. .
This is why you can see light reflecting AND see through a glass beaker at the same time.
What is the properties of glass enable it to reflect some light and transmit most light?
(it is clear & smooth)
This was the big idea we learned from changing the light in the box model.
What is changing the light changes what reaches the eye and what we see?
The definition of opaque.
What is an object that does NOT allow light to pass through.
What will be perceived when white light first shines at a green filter and then a purple filter.
What is black?