Properties of Light Practice Questions.

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What is the term for the bouncing back of light when it hits a surface?

Back

Reflection

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What do we call materials that do not allow light to pass through?

Back

Opaque

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What is the term for the change in direction of light as it passes from one medium to another?

Back

Refraction

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What is a transparent object that can separate white light into its component colors?

Back

Prism

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What is the bending of light as it passes at an angle from one type of matter into another?

Back

Refraction

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What is the phenomenon called when light travels in straight lines until it hits an object?

Back

Rectilinear propagation

Front

What is the angle called between the incident ray and the normal line at the point of incidence?

Back

Angle of incidence

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What is the angle called between the refracted ray and the normal line?

Back

Angle of refraction

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What is the law that states the ratio of the sines of the angles of incidence and refraction is constant for a given pair of media?

Back

Snell's Law

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Front

What type of lens is thicker in the middle than at the edges and converges light rays?

Back

Convex lens