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100

The definition of "Optics"

What is the study of light?

100

The smallest structural and functional unit of a living thing

What is a cell?

100

The town where Edmund Optics is headquartered

What is Barrington, New Jersey?

100

A flexible string of glass or plastic

What is an optical fiber?

100

A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait

What is a mutation?

200

The scientific name for when light bounces off of an object

What is "reflection"?

200

The most basic building blocks for all matter in the universe

What are atoms?

200

The scientific name for when light is bent as it passes through an opening or past the edges of an object

What is "diffraction"?

200

An optical illusion where light is bent because of hot air rising from the ground

What is a mirage?

200

The founder of Edmund Optics

Who is Norman Edmund?

300

The name of a curved piece of glass that focuses light to a point

What is a lens?

300

Someone who uses light to solve problems

What is an Optical Engineer?

300

The name of an optic that lets certain wavelengths of light pass through and not others

What is a filter?

300

This component splits light into two separate parts

What is a beamsplitter?

300

Two of the many industries where industrial optics are used

What is ___ and ____?

Aerospace; Medical; Automotive; Manufacturing; Research and Development; Consumer Product

400

The closest planet to Earth

What is Mercury?

400

Location of the first EO global office to open in 1995

What is Tokyo, Japan?

400

School where Optics/Optical Engineering is offered as a major

What is University of Rocherster?

400

This is the sum of all chemical reactions that take place inside the body. Hint: it gets slower as you get older

What is metabolism?

400

A quantity in physics with direction as well as magnitude

What is a vector?

500

Amount of time Edmund Optics has been in business

What is 80 years?

500

The scientific name for when light bends as it goes from one material to another

What is "refraction"?

500

The colors that are reflected through a prism

What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet? 

500

Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine are all considered these types of molecules

What are diatomic molecules?

500

If a set of atoms from the same element has a different number of neutrons, they are referred to as ___ of that element

What are isotopes?

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