Optical Components
This component reflects light.
What is a mirror?
The name for the three colors most humans can see that mix to form all other colors.
What are the primary colors?
The scientific name for light waves.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
When an electric field vibrates it creates this.
What is light or an electromagnetic wave.
This component allows only some colors to pass through them.
What is a color filter?
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum from 380 to 700 nanometers that the human eye can see.
What is the visible range?
The frequency of an electromangetic wave produces this propert of light.
What is color or the electromagnetic spectrum?
When something with mass approaches this speed it becomes infinity heavy.
What is the speed of light?
This component bends light at is surfaces.
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If this component magnifies an image, it is called this.
What is a lens?
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What is a convex lens?
The part of the electromagnetic spectrum where body heat radiates and is invisible to humans because the wavelength are a bit longer than red light.
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The part of the electromagnetic spectrum that sun screen is designed to block and is invisible to humans because the wavelength are a bit shorter than violet light.
What is infrared.
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What is ultraviolet.
The top and bottom of the bumps on a wave are called this.
What is the crest and trough?
Light particles are called this.
What is a photon?
This component allows light waves of only particular orientations to pass through them.
What is a polarizing filter?
These electromagnetic waves are about a centimeter long and used to heat food.
What are microwaves?
The amplitude of an electromangetic wave produces this propert of light.
What is brightness?
In the double slit experiment light travels through the slits and interfers with itself like a wave, but arrives at the screen as a particle. The name for this property of acting like both a particle and wave is this.
What is particle wave duality?
This component has internal reflections resulting in light being trapped and creating a twinkling effect.
What is a prism, light catcher, or cut gem stone?
These short wavelengh forms of light are very dangerous to humans because they are very high energy and can break bonds on our DNA and other imporant chemicals to life. They do have some medical applications for killing cancer cells and looking at brocken bones though.
What is ionizing radiation and comes in the form of x-rays and gamma rays.
When the crest of one wave meets the crest of another they make a taller wave. When the crest of one wave meets the trough of another the cancel out. This phenomenon is called this.
What is wave interference?
When light shines through two polarizer held a right angles to each other so the block the maximum amount of light and you slip another polarizer held at 45 degrees to the first two between then something surprising happens.
What is more light passes through the three filters than passed through the two filters because the light does not "remember" its state.