End of Year Exam Flashcards
What is number 1? What does it do?
Ear Canal. Channels sound from outside to the eardrum.
What is number 2? What does it do?
Inner Ear. A sealed cavity with a fixed air pressure. The ear drum presses down/stretches out and moves, it changes the pressure in the ear, causing the cillia to move.
What is number 3? What does it do?
Auditory Nerve. Transmits nerve signals from the cochlea to the brain, where the sound can be processed.
What is number 4? What does it do?
Cochlea. The Cochlea uses little hairs called cillia which move and convert movement into electrical signals which are passed to the auditory nerve.
What is number 5? What does it do?
Eustachian Tube. To maintain the correct air pressure for normal hearing.
What is number 6? What does it do?
Middle Ear. The bones move which create changes in pressure.
What is number 7? What does it do?
Eardrum. The sound travels untill it hits the eardrum causing it to move and vibrate.
What is number 8? What does it do?
Pinna. It collects sound and acting as a funnel amplifies this and directs it to the auditory canal.
What is the order of processes sound takes through the ear.
Pinna, Auditory/Ear Canal, Ear drum, Middle Ear (Bones -Hammer, Anvil, Stirrup), Inner Ear, Cochlea, Auditory Nerve.
Identify the concave and convex mirrors.
Convex is on the left and Concave is on the right.
How does a concave mirror reflect light?
The ray diagram shows that concave mirrors reflect light rays inwards. This causes the reflected rays to converge towards a focal point.
How does a convex mirror reflect light?
The ray digram shows that light rays are reflected outwards by convex mirrors. The reflected rays diverge so there is no focal point in front of the mirror.
What is refraction?
Refraction is light hitting an object and being refracted through the object so the light comes out the other side. Refraction is the beding of light as it changes medium from less to more dense vice-versa. The angle gets smaller when going from a less dense to more dense environemtn. The angle gets bigger when going from a more dense to less dense environment.
Draw a ray diagram showing refraction.
What is number 1?
The angles of incidence.
What is number 2?
The normal.
What is number 3?
The angle of reflection.
What is number 4?
The reflected ray.
What is number 5?
The mirror.
What is number 6?
The incident ray.
What is specular (regular) reflection?
If a bundle of light rays is incident upon a smooth surface, then the light rays reflect and remain in a bundle upon leaving the surface
What is diffuse reflection?
Reflection off rough surfaces such as clothing, paper, and concrete leads to a type of reflection known as diffuse reflection. If a bundle of light rays is incident to a rough surface, the light rays will reflect and diffuse in many different directions.
What does ROY G BIV stand for?
The colours of the rainbow. Red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet.
What are the three primary colours?
Red, green, and blue.
What do you get when you mix red with green?
Yellow.
What do you get when you mix red with blue?
Magenta.
What do you get when you mix green with blue?
Cyan.
Explain how we see colour.
In normal light, all of the reds, greens & blues, shine onto the object. The colours reflected off the object into our eye determines the colour we see. Different sustances within a surface determine what gets absorbed, reflected, or transmitted.
What is white light made up of?
Red, green and blue.
Explain why a mug would look white.
White light radiates from a light source and strikes the surface of the mug. No colours are absorbed by the surface, so all colours are reflected into our eyes. Our eyes mix together all the colours and the mug is seen as white.
Explain why a mug would look red.
White light, a mixture of red, blue and green, radiates from a light source and hits the mug. Whilst blue and green are absorbed by the surface, red light is reflected off the surface and into our eyes. Our eyes therefore see the mug as red.
Explain why a mug would look yellow.
White light, a mixture of red, blue and green, radiates from a light source and strikes the surface of the mug. Whilst blue light is absorbed by the surface, red and green light are reflected off the surface into our eyes. Red and green light are mixed together by our eyes and we see a yellow mug.
Explain why a mug would look black.
Red light radiates from a light source and strikes the surface of the mug. Red light is absorbed by the green surface so no light is reflected off the surface into our eyes. We therefore see the mug as black.
Explain why a lemon would look red.
Magenta light, a mixture of red and blue light, radiates from a light source and strikes the surface of the lemon. Whilst the lemon absorbs the blue light, the red light is reflected off the lemon into our eyes. We therefore see a red lemon.
Draw a particle diagram for a gas.
Draw a particle diagram for a liquid.
Draw a particle diagram for a solid.
What are the properties of a liquid?
What does atomic number mean?
An element’s or isotope’s atomic number tells how many protons are in its atoms.
What does mass number mean?
An element’s or isotope’s mass number tells how many protons and neutrons are in its atoms.
What is a proton?
A postiviely charged sub-atomic particle.
What is an electron?
A negatively charged sub-atomic particle.