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Why did scientists abandon Isaac Newton’s particle theory of light in 1850?

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Jean Foucault discovered that light travels slower in water than in air.

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Why do scientists have difficulty discovering truth?

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They have a limited means of observing reality.

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What are light waves?

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The regular and rapid transverse vibrations of electric and magnetic fields that spread out evenly in all directions.

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The frequency of sound is interpreted by the ear as ______

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Pitch

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The frequency of light is interpreted by the eye as:

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Color

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Six basic colors of the visible light spectrum

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Red orange yellow green blue violet

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The brightness of light is measured by its __________

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Intensity or amplitude

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The inverse square law for light intensity (brightness)

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The intensity of light at a particular point is inversely proportional to the square of the distance of the object from the light source.

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Light must be allows to expand in a spherical shell for the inverse square law to apply.

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Four physical quantities that vary according to the inverse square law

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The force of gravity
Brightness of light
Intensity of sound
Magnetic fields
Electrical fields
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What did William Herschel conclude about the sun?

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It radiates invisible waves

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Infrared waves have a _______ than do visible light waves.

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Longer wavelength

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A blacktop road that is warmer than air

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Radiates heat efficiently

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Black dirt

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Absorbs and radiates heat efficiently

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A blacktop road that is cooler than the air

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Absorbs heat efficiently

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Aluminum foil

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Absorbs and radiates heat poorly

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Microwaves, radar, UHF, VHF, FM, AM
Increasing wavelength
Decreasing frequency

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All electromagnetic waves can be _________

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Reflected, refracted, or absorbed

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Huygen’s principle of wave motion

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Every point on a wave is itself a source of a new wave motion of the same frequency

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What is diffraction?

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a phenomenon in which waves spread out after they pass through a small opening and bend as they pass along the edge of an obstruction

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When water waves strike a small standing obstruction, such as a post, they:

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bend along the edge of the obstruction

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How does diffraction affect microscopes and telescopes?

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it limits their resolution

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What does a diffraction grating do?

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disperses light into the colors of the spectrum

24
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Three advantages of diffraction gratings compared to glass prisms

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produces greater dispersion
separate colors better
provide a uniform amount of separation from one color to the next

25
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What is interference?

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the interaction of two or more waves

26
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Thomas Young’s experiment

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light band resulted from constructive interference of light waves
dark bands resulted from destructive interference of light waves

27
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Poor reception can occur when radio waves reach a receiver by two routes and ______

A

come together out of phase

28
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Polarization occurs because light waves are ______

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transverse

29
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What happens when light waves enter certain crystal formations?

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They are either absorbed or polarized along the plane of the crystal

30
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To eliminate almost all light, two polarizing crystals must be aligned

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perpendicularly to each other

31
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How do two European television stations broadcast two signals of the same frequency without interference

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one broadcasts horizontally polarized waves

the other broadcast vertically polarized waves

32
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Lord Rayleigh

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.

33
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A body that is charged with static electricity always has

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an unequal number of electrons and protons

34
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The three laws of static electricity developed by Benjamin Franklin

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Bodies charged with static electricity attract uncharged bodies. Like electric charges repel one another, unlike attract.

35
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What happens when a negatively charged body is connected to a ground by a conductor?

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it becomes neutral as excess electrons flow to the ground

36
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Coulomb’s law

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the force acting between two charges is directly proportional to the product of their charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them

37
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a coulomb is

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the amount of charge that will produce a force of 1.0 Newton when placed 1.0 meter from a like charge

38
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strongest force

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nuclear

39
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weakest force

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gravitational

40
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the potential difference between two points of an electrical field

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the work-per-unit charge needed to move the charge from one point to another

41
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What is an electrical field?

A

the region of force that surrounds a charged object.

42
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(q1 x q2)/r^2

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Coulomb’s law (answer in dynes when esu and cm)

43
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What are two ways to increase capacitance?

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increase charge or lower voltage

44
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What procedure is used to make it possible to include large capacitors in electrical circuits?

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The capacitor is made of flexible foil which is separated with waxed paper and then rolled into a cylinder

45
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A _______ is one whose capacitance can be changed

A

variable capacitor

46
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How is a variable capacitor created?

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by holding one set of plates stationary while the other set pivots

47
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If a charged rod is brought near an electroscope and the leaves collapse quickly, what happens?

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The charges cannot be identified by this information

48
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When a charged rod is brought near an electroscope, the leaves collapse quickly. When a rod of opposite charge is brought near, the leaves diverge farther. What is the charge of the electroscope?

A

The charge cannot be identified by this information.

49
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If a charged rod is brought near an electroscope and the leaves diverge farther, what happens?

A

Either both are positive or both are negative

50
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Explain how the Dewar flask reduces each type of heat loss to a minimum

A

A partial vacuum reduces heat transfer by conduction and convection, and the reflective silvered surface of the walls reduces heat transfer by radiation.

51
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Coulomb’s law

A

the force of attraction between two charges is directly proportional to the product of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distances separating them.

52
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What is the potential difference between two points of an electric field?

A

the work-per-unit charge needed to move the charge from one point to another

53
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The three laws of static electricity as developed by Benji

A

Bodies charged with static electricity attract uncharged bodies.
Like electric charges repel each other.
Unlike electric charges attract each other.

54
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If a charged rod is brought near an electroscope and the leaves diverge father, what happens?

A

Either both are positive or both are negative.

55
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What is an electric field?

A

the region of force that surrounds a charged object

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