The 'E-M' Spectrum
Reward for Good Bewavior
The Duality of Light
Applications of Light
Light Manipulation
Final Jeopardy
100
His description of the photoelectric effect won him the Nobel Prize for physics in 1921.
Who was Albert Einstein?
100
The movie Dracula reveals that light doesn't exhibit this behavior when illuminating a vampire in a mirror.
What is reflection?
100
It's the two characteristics that light is said to behave as when describing its duality.
What are waves and particles?
100
Raise your hand if you know the type of light that was used to take this picture.
What are X-rays?
100
"It's a bird! It's a...." word that describes the type of mirror that's producing the virtual, upright, unmagnified image of this superhero's likeness.
What is a plane mirror?
100
Category: Particle-like Behavior
This two-word term refers to the minimum amount of energy required to remove an electron from the surface of a metal.
200
It's the type of field that runs perpendicular to the electric field in a light wave.
What is a magnetic field?
200
The "water on the road" mirage is due to hotter air above the blacktop, causing this bending of light rays.
What is refraction?
200
When an atom undergoes a quantum leap, one of these light particles is emitted or absorbed.
What is a photon?
200
Stations like this convert this form of light wave into mechanical sound waves for the pleasure of their listeners.
What are radio waves?
200
It's what θ2 represents in this image.
What is the angle of refraction?
300
While mechanical waves depend on this matter-filled region to travel through, light waves can travel with or without it.
What is a medium?
300
Light is demonstrating this wave behavior to produce the patterns shown.
What is interference?
300
It's the name of this phenomenon that demonstrates light's particle-like nature.
What is the photoelectric effect?
300
Not only is it the type of light you emit as body heat, it's also the light television remote controls emit.
What is infrared, (or IR).
300
It's the type of light manipulating device shown here, as well as the type of image it's producing.
What are a convex lens (or convergin lens) and a real image?
400
It's what the "e" and the "E" respectfully stand for in this image.
What are electron and energy?
400
The image below reveals that when it comes to this behavior of waves, the size of the gap matters.
What is diffraction?
400
The results of this experiment demonstrate light's wave-like nature.
What is the double-slit experiment?
400
The radiation type with the shortest wavelength, these Greek-letter rays are used in medical diagnosis & therapy
What are gamma rays?
400
The shirt's pigments absorb (subtract) this color and reflect these two to produce its magenta hue.
500
He put forth the equations that helped further describe the electromagnetic waves that Faraday had proposed years earlier.
Who was James Clerk Maxwell?
500
It is either of the two adjectives that distinguish the mirror images shown in the bodies of water depicted here.
What are diffuse, and specular reflections.
500
The field of quantum mechanics was ushered in as Max Planck solved this crisis in physics where classical theory incorrectly predicted that an ideal black body would emit infinite energy.
What is the ultraviolet (or UV) catastrophe?
500
Finding that a nearby magnetron had melted a candy bar in his pocket led Percy Spencer to invent this
What is the microwave?
500
Defined as the ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum, c, to its speed in a particular medium, v.
n = c/v
What is the index of refraction?