The definition of "Optics"
What is the study of light?
The smallest structural and functional unit of a living thing
What is a cell?
The town where Edmund Optics is headquartered
What is Barrington, New Jersey?
A flexible string of glass or plastic
What is an optical fiber?
A change of the DNA in an organism that results in a new trait
What is a mutation?
The scientific name for when light bounces off of an object
What is "reflection"?
The most basic building blocks for all matter in the universe
What are atoms?
The scientific name for when light is bent as it passes through an opening or past the edges of an object
What is "diffraction"?
An optical illusion where light is bent because of hot air rising from the ground
What is a mirage?
The founder of Edmund Optics
Who is Norman Edmund?
The name of a curved piece of glass that focuses light to a point
What is a lens?
Someone who uses light to solve problems
What is an Optical Engineer?
The name of an optic that lets certain wavelengths of light pass through and not others
What is a filter?
This component splits light into two separate parts
What is a beamsplitter?
Two of the many industries where industrial optics are used
What is ___ and ____?
Aerospace; Medical; Automotive; Manufacturing; Research and Development; Consumer Product
The closest planet to Earth
What is Mercury?
Location of the first EO global office to open in 1995
What is Tokyo, Japan?
School where Optics/Optical Engineering is offered as a major
What is University of Rocherster?
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?
A quantity in physics with direction as well as magnitude
What is a vector?
Amount of time Edmund Optics has been in business
What is 80 years?
The scientific name for when light bends as it goes from one material to another
What is "refraction"?
The colors that are reflected through a prism
What is Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet?
Hydrogen, Nitrogen, Oxygen, Fluorine, Chlorine, Bromine, and Iodine are all considered these types of molecules
What are diatomic molecules?
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?