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What is Light?
How is Light Produced?
Images in Curved Mirrors
The Ray Model of Light
The Laws of Reflection and Images in Plane Mirrors
100
The classification of electromagnetic waves by energy
What is the electromagnetic spectrum
100
The process of producing light by passing an electric current through a gas.
What is electric discharge.
100
A mirror shaped like part of the surface of a sphere in which the outer surface is reflective.
What is a convex mirror.
100
Light emitted from a source that strikes an object.
What is the incident ray.
100
Reflection of light off a smooth surface.
What is specular reflection.
200
This type of ray is used for telecommunication.
What is a microwave.
200
This type of light is filled with very low-pressure mercury.
What is compant fluorescent light.
200
A light ray parallel to the principal axis is reflected through?
What is the focus.
200
A line on a diagram representing the direction and path that light is travelling.
What is a light ray.
200
This condition is associated with having difficulty reading because of the glare off the white paper.
What is dyslexia.
300
A method of energy transfer that does not require a medium; the energy travels at the speed of light.
What is radiation.
300
The enzyme luciferase is necessary for this type of light to be produced.
What is bioluminescence.
300
Same size, inverted, same distance from mirror and real.
What an object located at C (Centre of curvature).
300
Allows some light to pass through but does not allow you to clearly see objects behind it.
What is a translucent object.
300
The orientation of an image in a plane mirror that is backwards and in reverse order.
What is lateral inversion.
400
The first person to separate white light into the visible spectrum.
Who is Isaac Newton.
400
A special electronic device that produces light when an electric current flows through it.
What is an light-emitting diode (LED).
400
This type of mirror has its focus behind the mirror.
What is convex mirror (diverging).
400
Drawn at the point where the incident ray strikes the surface of the mirror.
What is the normal.
400
Size, Attitude, Location, and Type are considered ____________________ ?
What is the properties of an image.
500
Radio waves, microwaves, infrared light, visible light, ultraviolet light, X-rays, and gamma rays.
What the electromagnetic spectrum listed from the least amount of energy to the most amount of energy.
500
This type of light does not have any practical application.
What is triboluminescence.
500
This type of mirror always produces a smaller, upright, and virtual image.
What is a convex or diverging mirror.
500
The use of light rays to determine how light behaves when it strikes an object.
What is geometric optics.
500
An image formed by light coming from an apparent light source.
What is a virtual image.