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Chapter 25 Light Flashcards

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Parallel light rays strike a rough irregular surface causing the reflected rays to go in all directions

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Diffuse reflection

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When parallel light rays strike a smooth plane surface and the reflected rays are parallel to each other

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Specular reflection

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What are the properties of images reflected in a mirror

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Image is upright
Image is same size
Image is located as far behind the mirror as in front of it
Image is flipped front to back

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When none of the light rays emanate from the mirror

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Virtual image

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What mirror is usually associated with virtual images

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Convex mirror

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Produced by curved mirrors and all the light rays emanate from the image

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Real image

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With what mirror are real images associated with

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Concave mirrors

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What size image is needed in order to view full length in a mirror

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Half length mirror

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What becomes possible when a double reflection occurs

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An additional image

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Inside surface of spherical mirror is polished

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Concave mirror

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Outside surface of spherical mirror is polished

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Convex mirror

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Straight line drawn through the center of curvature C and the midpoint of the mirror

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Principal axis

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Image point at which reflected light rays near and parallel to the principal axis from a concave mirror converge

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Focal point f

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Rays that lie close to the principal axis.

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Paraxial rays

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The fact that a spherical mirror does not bring all rays parallel to the principal axis to a single image

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Spherical aberration

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Why is the refractive index greater than unity

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Speed of light in material medium is less than it is for a vacuum

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What does the index of refraction depend slightly on

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Wavelength and light

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What happens when light strikes interface btw two transparent materials

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Divides into two parts
1 part is reflected
Remainder is transmitted across interface

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What happens if the incident ray doesn’t strike interface at normal incidence

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Transmitted ray is refracted

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What happens to the refractive ray when light travels from a medium where refractive index is smaller into a medium where it is larger

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Bends towards the normal

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What happens to refracted ray when light travels from medium where refractive index is larger into a medium where it is smaller

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Bends away from normal line

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