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1
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What can all waves be?

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Absorbed,transmitted or reflected

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When a wave arrives at a boundary between two different materials what happens?

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  • The waves are absorbed by the material the wave is trying to cross into this transferes the energy to the material energy stores
  • The waves are transmitted. Refraction happens
  • The waves are reflected
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3
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Angle of incidence =

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Angle of reflection

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Whats the angle of incidence?

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The angle between the incoming line and normal

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Whats the angle of reflection?

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The angle between the reflected and the normal

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Whats the normal line?

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An imaginary line perpindicular to the surface at the point of incidence. Normally the dotted line

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When does specular reflection happen?

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A wave is reflected in a single direction by a smooth surface.

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Give an example of specular reflection?

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When light is reflected in the mirror and you get a clear reflection

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9
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What is diffuse reflection?

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When a wave is reflected by a rough surface and the rays are scattered in different directions

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10
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What happenes when loght is reflected by a rough surface?

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The surface appears matte and you don’t get a clear reflection of objects

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What’s refraction?

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Waves changing direction at a boundary

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12
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What happens when a wave crosses a boundary at an angle and changes direction?

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It refracts

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13
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What does how much it refracts depend on?

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  • How much it speeds up or slows down
  • Also density of 2 materials
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14
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What does a higher density mean?

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It will slow down

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What happens when a wave crosses a boundary and slows down?

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It will bend towards the normal line

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What happens if it crosses into another material and speeds up?

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Bend away from the normal line

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17
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What happens when the wavelength of a wave stays the same?

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The frequency stays the same

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18
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What happens if a wave travels across the normal line?

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Change speed but not refract

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19
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Why do waves go in a different direction?

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The wave hit a medium

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20
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Whats the optical density?

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A measure of How quickly light can travel through it

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21
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What does higher the optical density mean?

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The slower light waves travel through it

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22
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Why should you do the practical in a dim room?

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So you can see the light rays better

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23
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What materials can you use to investigate refraction?

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Transparent

24
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What are the steps for the transparent material?

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1) Place a transparent block on a peice of paper and trace around it. And shine a ray box at the block
2) trace the incident ray and mark the emerging ray. Then draw a straight line to each other to show the refracted ray
3) draw the normal when the light enetered the block, use a protractor to measure between the normal and refracted.
4) Repeat using rectangle blocks with different materials keeping the incident ray the same.

Angle of refraction change for different materials

25
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How do lenses form images?

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By refracting light and chnaging it’s direction

26
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Whats a convex lens?

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Bulges outwards and causes rays of light parallel to the axis to be brought together at the focus point.

27
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Whats a concave lens?

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Caves inwards and causes parallel rays of light to spread out

28
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Whats the axis of a lens?

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The line passing through the middle of the lens

29
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Whats the principle focus of a convex lens?

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Is where rays hitting the lens parallel to the axis all meet

30
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Whats the principle focus of a concave lens?

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The point where rays hitting the lens parallel to the axis appear to all come from.

31
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Whats the focal length?

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The distance from the centre of the lens to principle focus

32
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What are the 3 rules for refraction in convex lens?

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  • an incident ray parallel to the axis refracts through the lens and passes through the principal focus on the other side.
  • an incident ray passing through the principal focus refracts through the lens and travels parallel to the axis
  • an incident ray passing through the centre carrys on
33
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Rules for concave lens?

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  • An incident ray passing through the centre of the lens carrys on in same direction
  • An incident ray passing towards the principal focus refracts through the lens and is parallel to the axis
  • An incident ray parallel to the axis refracts through the lens and travels in line with the prinicpal focus
34
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What can lenses produce?

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Real and virtual images

35
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What is a real image?

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When the light from an object comes together to form an image on the screen like the image formed on the eyes retina

36
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Whats a virtual image?

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Is when rays are diverging so the light from the object appears to come from a different place

37
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An example of a virtual image?

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When you look in the mirror because the objects behind the mirror

38
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What are the 3 things to describe an image?

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  • How big is it
  • Real or virtual
  • Upright or inverted
39
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What lens always creates virtual images?

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Concave lens

40
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What uses convex lenses?

A

Magnifying glasses

41
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Magnification =

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Image height/object height

42
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What is visible light made from?

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A range of colours

43
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What does each colour have?

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Own range of wavelengths and frequencies

44
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How do you make other colours?

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By mixing them

45
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What are the ony colours you can get without mixing?

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Red,green,blue

46
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What do all different colours create?

A

White light

47
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What do colour and transparency depend on?

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Absorbed wavelengths

48
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What happens when visible light hits an opaque objects?

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They absorb some wavelength and reflect others

49
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What does the colour of an opaque object depend on?

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Which wavelengths are strongly reflected

50
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What happens to opaque object that aren’t a primary colour?

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They reflect on other wavelengths of light corrosponding to that colour

51
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What do white objects reflect.

A

All visible light equally

52
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What do black objects absorb?

A

All wavelengths of visible light

53
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What are colour filters used for?

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Filter out different wavelenths of light so that only certain colours are transmitted

54
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What does a primary colour transmit?

A

Only that colour

55
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What happens when a different colour goes through a colour filter ?

A

Goes black

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