Properties of Light

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• What is the relationship between the speed of light, wavelength, and frequency of electromagnetic radiation?
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• What are the properties of electromagnetic waves?
• What properties of light allow shadows to form?
• What properties of light are determined by wavelength?
• What properties of light are used in a periscope?
• Give an interpretation of Einstein's theory of relativity?
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• What is the distance that light travels through a vacuum in 1/299,792,458 of a second?
• What produces the light to make images on a television or computer screen?
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• If you mix cyan paint with magenta, what will you get?
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• Light is travelling in quartz, which has an index of refraction of 1.458. How fast does light travel in quartz?
• Light is travelling at a speed of #2.20*10^8# #m#/#s# through alcohol. What is the index of refraction of alcohol?
• Light is travelling in water, which has an index of refraction of 1.333. How fast does light travel in water?
• Light is travelling at a speed of #2.29*10^8# #m#/#s# through ice. What is the index of refraction of ice?
• Light is travelling in air, which has an index of refraction of 1. How fast does light travel in air?
• Light is travelling at a speed of #1.56*10^8# #m#/#s# through zircon. What is the index of refraction of zircon?
• A beam of light passes from zircon to an unknown material at an angle of 32°. After passing through the material, the beam makes an angle of 47.15° compared to the perpendicular. What is the index of refraction of the second material?
• A beam of light passes from quartz to zircon at an angle of 19°. What is the angle of refraction? What is the critical angle when passing from zircon to quartz?
• A beam of light passes from zircon to quartz at an incident angle of 8°. What is the angle of refraction?
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• How will sunlight most likely affect a black shirt on a hot summer day?
• Why is visible light useful in photosynthesis, while other forms of electromagnetic radiation are not?
• What are some advantages and disadvantages of a hypothetical "flashlight" that would emit x-rays instead of visible light?
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• I thought answer is C but it is A. Why is that so? And what does opposite side mean?
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• What is mass of light?
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• How are the wave length and frequency of a light ray related to each other?
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• Why is the sky blue?
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• Examples of converging and diverging beams?
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• What process is MOSTLY responsible for the blue appearance of the sky? A) refraction of light by clouds B) scattering of light by air molecules C) refraction of light by water molecules D) obstruction of yellow light by pollutants
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• White light is broken down into what colors?
• What is chromatic aberration?
• Why are photons useful in our everyday life?
• What are the radiation types in order from lowest to highest energy: microwaves, ultraviolet light, red light, and gamma rays?
• What would the spectrum from sunlight in a spectrometer look like?
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• I wonder 'image is formed by intersection of 2 light rays' . Can't it be a single light ray to form an image ? Some sources do suggest that a single photon can form image
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• Meghan says "I have a puppet that is 10cm all and a second puppet that is 15cm tall. When I place them next to each other infront of a light source, the first puppets shadow is 32cm tall and the second puppet's shadow is 46.5cm tall. Is this possible?