Nuclear Physics
A stream of helium nuclei ejected by radioactive elements
What is an Alpha Ray?
A range of frequency from radio waves to gamma rays, also known as "light"?
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
The angle of reflection equals the angle of incidence
What is the Law of Reflection?
Red, Yellow, and Blue
What are the primary colors of pigment?
A quantum of light
What is a photon?
They discovered Polonium
Who are the Curies?
When the Moon passes into the shadow of the Earth
What is a lunar eclipse?
The bending of light when it passes from one transparent medium to another
What is refraction?
Cyan, Magenta, and Yellow
What are the secondary colors of light?
Light caused by electrons vibrating due to high temperatures
What is incandesence?
These keep it ALL together but only works at very close distances
What are strong forces?
The darker part of a shadow where all the light is blocked
What is the umbra?
When a ray of light within a denser medium strikes a boundary at an angle larger than the critical angle
What is Total Internal Reflection?
The wavelengths of light a substance reflects
What is its color?
Light that is amplified by stimulated emission of radiation
Nucleons
What are protons and neutrons?
The property of materials not to allow the passage of light
What is opaque?
A lens that is thicker in the middle than at the edges. Also known as a convex lens.
What is a converging lens?
380 nm – 750 nm
What is visible light?
What is Luminescence?
The conversion of an atomic nucleus from one element to another
What is transmutation?
c
What is the speed of light?
(3.00 x 108 m/s)
An image formed by light rays that do not converge
What is a virtual image?
This is determined by the frequency of light that is reflected by an object
What is its color?
Light and gamma rays are essentially this