Theory of Light
Waves and Frequencies
Reflection/Refraction
Lenses
Color
100
This theory views a ray of light as a beam of particles called photons.
What is the particle theory of light?
100
The colors of the rainbow in terms of decreasing wavelength.
What are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet
100
The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another.
What is refraction?
100
This type of lens causes light rays to move away from each other.
What is a diverging lens?
100
These are the additive primary colors.
What are red, blue, and green?
200
This theory views light as two transverse waves, one made up of an oscillating magnetic field and one made up of an oscillating electric field.
What is the wave theory of light?
200
Visible light, radio waves, and x-rays are examples of waves contained in this spectrum.
What is the Electromagnetic spectrum?
200
This happens to light when it hits an obstacle and bounces off the obstacle.
What is reflection?
200
The human eye is an example of this type of lens?
What is a converging lens?
200
These two subtractive primary colors mix to produce the color blue.
What are magenta and cyan?
300
A transverse wave composed of an oscillating electric field and a magnetic field that oscillates perpendicular to the electric field.
What is an electromagnetic wave?
300
The frequency of ultraviolet rays is ________ than the frequency of visible light rays.
What is greater or higher.
300
A rainbow is formed when light is separated into its colors by this process.
What is refraction?
300
In order to change its focus the eye must do this.
What is changes the shape of its lens?
300

Red paint absorbs which wavelengths of visible light?

What is orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo , and violet?

400
This theory views light as tiny packets of waves that behave like particles.
What is the quantum-mechanical theory of light?
400
Which type of ray has more energy, microwave or x-ray?
What is x-ray?
400

The sides of a lens with this shape focuses light rays through a single point.

What is convex.

400
The color you see when you shine a red light and a green light at the same spot on a mirror.
What is yellow.
500
According to Einstein, nothing with mass can travel faster than this rate, which is also the speed of light as it travels through a vacuum.
What is 300,000,000 meters per second?
500
The color of visible light is determined by this.
What is wavelength?
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