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What is the book that was published by Isaac Newton that laid the foundation for the modern scientific study of light?

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Opticks

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What is the ideas that light is a stream of tiny particles emitted by a light source?

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particle theory of light

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What is the theory that lights consists of a wave, not particles?

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wave theory of light

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Who was the Scottish physicist who demonstrated that light consists of two transverse waves oscillating at right angels to each other?

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James Clerk Maxwell

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What is a wave consisting of two transverse waves, one electric and one magnetic, oscillating at right angels to each other?

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electromagnetic wave

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Who was the German professor who demonstrated the existence of invisible electromagnetic waves?

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Heindrich Hertz

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What is a phenomenon that occurs when light above a certain frequency knocks electron loose from atoms of certain metals?

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photoelectric effect

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What is the theory stating that light has both a wave nature and particle nature?

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quantum theory of light

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What is a tiny bundle or packet of energy?

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photon

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What are electromagnetic waves that travel as photons?

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light

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What is the range of electromagnetic waves that the human eye can perceive?

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visible light

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What is the range of electromagnetic waves that the human eye can perceive as having color?

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visible spectrum

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What is a mixture of all the colors of light?

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white

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What is less-intense white light?

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gray

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What is the absence of color?

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black

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What separates white light into its component color by refracting the light that passes through?

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a prism

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What are the three colors of light that can be mixed together to create the illusion of almost any color?

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additive primary colors- red, green, blue

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What kinds of cells in the eyes detect color?

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cone cells

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What type of cells in the eyes detect only light and dark?

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rod cells

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What are three colors of pigment that can be mixed to produced the illusion of almost any color?

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subtractive primary colors- magenta, cyan, and yellow

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What type of image appears to be behind a mirror; no light passes through the image locations?

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virtual image

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What type of image forms in front of the mirror?

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real image

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What is a mirror in which the reflecting side is on the inside of the spherical surface?

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concave mirror

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What is a mirror in which the reflecting side is on the outside of the spherical surface?

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convex mirror

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What is the bending of the path of a wave as a result of a change in wave speed, usually caused by crossing the boundary between two media?
refraction
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Where does refracted light bend toward?
toward the medium that slows them down
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What is a piece of glass or other substance specially designed to refract light?
lens
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What is a lens that curves outward and causes rays of light passing through it to bend inward and converge on a point?
convex lens
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What is a lens that curves inward, like the opening of a cave, and causes waves of light passing through it to bend outward?
concave lens
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What is an illusion that occurs when the light rays from a distant object are refracted by heated air so that the object appears to be nearby?
mirage
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What is the twinkling of stars caused by refraction of light?
scintillation
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What is a semicircular arc of colored bands of light that forms in the sky when millions of airborne water droplets act like tiny prisms?
rainbow
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What is the mutual reinforcement or cancellation that occurs when two or more waves meet?
interference
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What is the phenomenon in which colors are produced on the surface of an object by interference; colors seen depend on the viewing angle?
iridescence
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What occurs when light passes through a narrow opening?
it diffracts
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What is the light fringe that results from constructive interference of light waves coming from different parts of a narrow slit?
antinode
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What is the dark fringe that results from destructive interference coming from different parts of a narrow slit?
node
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What is a simple devices that uses diffraction to produce spectra?
diffraction grating
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What is any scientific technique that analyzes a substance or phenomenon by observing a light spectrum?
spectroscopy
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What refers to a beam of light containing waves that are all aligned in the same direction?
polarized
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What is an arrangement of all forms of electromagnetic radiation in the order of the frequency and wavelength?
electromagnetic spectrum
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What is a low-frequency electromagnetic waves widely used for communication?
radio waves
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What are waves of higher frequency and shorter wavelength than radio waves?
microwaves
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What is a device that uses reflected radio waves or microwaves to measure the distance and direction of a faraway object?
radar
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What is an electromagnetic wave whose frequency is greater than that of microwaves and just below that of red visible light; sometimes called heat ray?
infrared ray
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What is electromagnetic radiation frequency slightly higher than that of visible light from lowest frequency to highest frequency, divided into UVA, UVB, and UVC?
ultraviolet radiation
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What are electromagnetic waves of extremely high frequency and energy released by gamma decay?
gamma rays
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What is the process where a single photon is emitted by an excited electron?
spontaneous emission
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What is the process of photon emission by stimulation of already-exicted atoms?
stimulated emission
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What is a device that generates and amplifies hig-energy beam of light using stimulated emission?
laser
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Who made the first laser called the ruby laser that produced only pulses of light?
Theodore H. Maiman
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What refers to light that consists of only one frequency?
monochromatic
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What refers to light that comes from a single source and in a single wave train with all waves in phase and moving in the same direction?
coherent light
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What is the use of laser beams to transmit signals through narrow glass cables called optical fibers?
fiber optics
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What is a three-dimensional image produced by laser light?
hologram
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Who is the scientist who discovered the special and general theories of relativity and helped discover the wave-particle theory of light?
Albert Einstein
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What is the theory that describes the behavior of objects traveling near the speed of light?
special theory of relativity
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What is the apparent slowdown in time for a rapidly moving object?
time dilation
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What is the apparent contraction in length, which results from the apparent slowdown of time?
Lorentz contraction
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What is the theory proposing that gravity in a result of the geometry of space itself?
general theory of relativity
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