Applications of Optics
Types of Luminescence
Properties of Light
Equation Questions
Mixed Optics Questions
100
What kind of Mirror can be found in an underground parking garage and why?
What is a convex mirror, because it widens your field of vision allowing you to see more of the garage.
100
What kind of luminescence does a jellyfish use?
What is bioluminescence.
100
Qhat kind of wave does light travel in?
What is transverse waves.
100
What does M stand for in the equation M=di/do?
What is magnification.
100
Name a type of luminescence.
What is electric discharge, bioluminescence, chemiluminescence etc...
200
How is optics used in a surgery?
What is total internal reflection used through a scope to light up your body for the camera to see.
200
What luminescence happens when you rub 2 crystals together?
What is triboluminescence.
200
what is light measured in?
What is Hertz.
200
What is the equation for focal length?
What is 1/f=1/di+1/do.
200
What are the seven visible light rays?
What is red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
300
What type of mirror is used in a cars headlights?
What is a concave mirror.
300
What is one example of electric discharge?
What is lightning, neon signs etc...
300
What is it called from the crest of the light wave to the rest axis?
What is amplitude.
300
What does it mean when you get a negative number for di in the focal length equation.
What is the image is virtual.
300
When light goes from one substance to a substance more dense which way does it bend in accordance to the normal?
What is towards the normal.
400
How is a concave mirror used in a flashlight?
What is the reflection of light off of anywhere on the mirror out through a single point.
400
What type of luminescence has the ability to store energy from light and emit it slowly?
What is Phosphorescent.
400
What is the speed of light through air or a vacume?
What is 3x10^8.
400
A pinhole camera produces a 2.34x10^-2m image of a building that is actually 50m high. what is the magnification of the camera?
What is M=4.68x10^-4
400
What is the electromagnetic spectrum?
What is a wave pattern mode of electric and magnetic fields that can travel through space.
500
What kind of mirror does the law of reflection best describe?
What is a plane mirror.
500
which of the following is not an example of chemiluminescence? Cool light? Glow stick? Fireflies?
What are fireflies.
500
How is light created.
What is the falling of an electron back to its original place.
500
A light from a specimen is 4mm from the lens creating a real image that is 10mm away from the lens. What is the focal length?
What is f=2.9mm.
500
In order for total internal reflection to occur the starting material must be more ______ then the surrounding material.
What is more dense.