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What is a medium

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any physical substance through which energy can be transferred

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What is radiation?

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A method of energy transfer that does not require a medium; the energy travels at the speed of light

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What is electromagnetic waves?

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A wave that has high electric and magnetic parts, does not require a medium, and travels at the speed of light

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What is visible light?

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Electromagnetic waves that the human eye can detect

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What is the electromagnetic spectrum?

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The classification of electromagnetic waves by energy

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What is visible spectrum?

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The continuous sequence of colours that make up white light

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What does luminous mean?

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Produces its own light

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What does non luminous mean?

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Does not produce it’s own light

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What is incandescence?

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The production of light as a result of high temperatures

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What is electric discharge

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The process of producing light by passing an electric current through a gas

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What is phosphorescence?

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The process of producing light by the absorption of Ulithi violet light over an extended period of time

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What is fluorescence?

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The immediate emissions of visible light as a result of the absorption of ultraviolet light

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What is chemiluminescence?

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The direct production of light as the result of a chemical reaction which little or no heat produced

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What is bioluminescence?

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The production of light in living organisms as the result of a chemical reaction with little or no heat produced

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What is triboluminescence?

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The production is light from friction as a result of scratching crushing or rubbing certain crystals

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What is a light-emitting diode (LED)?

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Light produced as a result of an electric current flowing in semi conductors

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What is a semiconductor?

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A material that allows an electric current to flow in only one direction

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What is a light ray?

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A line on a diagram representing the direction and path that light is travelling

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What are geometric optics?

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The use of light rays to determine how light behaves when it strikes an object

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What is an incident light?

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Light emitted from a source that strikes an object

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What is transparent?

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When a material transmits all or almost all incident light; objects can be clearly seen through the material

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What is translucent?

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When a material transmits some incident light but absorbs or reflects the rest; objects are not clearly seen through the material

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What is opaque?

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When a material does not transmit any incident light; all incident light is either absorbed or reflected; objects behind the material can not be seen at all

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What does image mean?

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Reproduction of an object through the use of light

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What is a mirror?
Any polished surface reflecting an image
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What is a reflection?
The bouncing back of light from a surface
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What is a plane mean?
Flat
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What is an incident ray?
The incoming ray that bounces off a reflective surface
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What is a normal?
The perpendicular line to a mirror surface
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What does perpendicular mean?
At right angles
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What is an angle of incidence?
The angle between the incidence ray and the normal
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What is the angle of reflection?
The angle between the reflected ray and the normal
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What is specular reflection?
Reflection of light off a smooth surface
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What is a virtual image?
An image formed by light coming from an apparent light source; light is not arriving at or coming from the actual image location
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What is lateral inversion?
The orientation of an image in a plane mirror that is backwards and in reverse order
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What is a concave (converging) mirror?
A mirror shaped like part of the surface of a sphere In which the inner surface is reflective
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What is a convex (diverging) mirror?
A mirror shaped like part of the surface of a sphere in which the outer surface is reflective
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What is the centre of curvature?
The centre of the sphere whose surface has been used to make the mirror
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What is a principal axis?
The line through the centre of curvature to the midpoint of the mirror
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What is the vertex?
The point where the principal axis meets the mirror
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What does it mean to converge?
To meet at a common point
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What is the focus?
The point at which light rays parallel to the principal axis converge when they are reflected off a concave mirror
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What is a real image?
An image that can be seen on a screen as a result of light rays actually arriving at the image location
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What does diverge mean?
To spread apart
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What is refraction?
The bending or change in direction of light when it travels from one medium to another
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What is an angle of refraction?
The angle between the refracted ray and the normal
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What is the index of refraction?
The ratio of the speed of light in a vacuum and the speed of light in a medium, n=c/v; this value is also equal to the ratio of the sine of the angle of incidence in a vacuum to the sine of the refracted ray in a medium, n=sin
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What is a critical angle?
The angle of incidence that results in an angle of refraction of 90 degrees
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What is the total internal reflection?
The situation when the angle of incidence is greater than the critical angle
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What is a retro-reflector?
An optical device in which the emergent ray is parellel to the incident ray
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What is apparent depth?
The depth that an object appears to be at due to the refraction of light in a transparent medium
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What is a mirage?
A virtual image that forms as a result of refraction and total internal reflection in earths atmosphere
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What is dispersion?
The separation of white light into its constituent colours
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What is a converging lens?
A lens that is thickest in the middle and that causes incident parallel light rays to converge through a single point after refraction
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What is a diverging lens?
A lens that is thinnest in the middle and that causes incident parallel light rays to spread apart after refraction
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What is the optical centre?
The point at the exact centre of the lens
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What is the principal focus
The point on the principal axis of a lens where light rays parallel to the principal axis converge after refraction
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What is an emergent ray?
The light ray that leaves a lens after refraction
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What is the thin lens equation?
1/f = 1/do + 1/di
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What is the magnification equation?
M = hi/ho + di/do
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What is accommodation?
The changing of shape of the eye lens by eye muscles to allow a sharply focused image to form on the retina
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What is hyperopia?
The inability of the eye to focus light from near objects; farsightedness
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What is positive meniscus?
A modified form of the converging lens shape
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What is presbyopia?
A form of farsightedness caused by a loss of accommodation as a person ages
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What is myopia?
The inability of the eye to focus light from distant objects; nearsightedness
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What is a negative meniscus?
a modified form of the diverging lens shape
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What speed does light travel in a vacuum?
3.00 x 10^8 m/s
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What speed does light travel in water?
2.26 x 10^8 m/s
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What speed does light travel in acrylic?
1.76 x 10^8 m/s
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Light bends ______ the normal when the speed of light in the second medium is less than the speed of light in the first medium.
Toward
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Light bends ______ from the normal when the speed of light in the second medium is greater
Away
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What is snells law?
N= sinOi/sinOr
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What is the critical angle of a diamond?
24 degrees
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What are the 5 phenomenas related to refraction?
Apparent depth, flattened sun, mirage, shimmering and the rainbow.

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