Vocabulary I
The highest part of a wave
What is the crest
The height of a wave
What is amplitude
The name of the simulator we used to explore colored light interactions
What is PhET?
This is the name of the character who was on one side of a two-way (or one-way) mirror at a police station
Who is Mr. Bean
The lowest point on a wave
What is the trough
Light passing through an object
What is transmit
The distance from crest to crest or trough to trough
What is wavelength
The colors that are reflected from a piece of white paper
What are all the colors or ROY G BIV
The type of lines light rays travel in (as long as nothing is in the way)
What are straight lines
The invisible line within a wave
What is the resting position or rest position
The unit of measure for wave frequency
What is hertz or waves per second
A tool of science that can separate the colors of visible light spectrum
What is a prism
After a light wave is absorbed, it becomes a form of this
What is heat energy
The acronym (abbreviation) for all the visible colors of light in the spectrum
What is ROY G BIV
The bending of light such as through water in a clear glass.
What is refraction
The type of wave explored during our Slinky Lab
What is a transverse wave
The three colors of the visible light spectrum that could produce white light
The type of objects that block light entirely, preventing light from transmitting through them
What are opaque objects?
What is the name for all the light energy in our universe?
What is the Electromagnetic Spectrum?
The taking in of light energy by an object.
What is absorption
The most powerful and dangerous type of wave
What is a gamma wave/ray
The names of two of the types of electromagnetic waves we cannot see
What are ultraviolet waves, x-rays, gamma rays, radio waves, microwaves, or infrared waves
This is the name of the colored filters we used during our Light and Matter Unit.
What is cellophane?