General Physics Quiz 2 (Mod 2)

For our purposes, it is sufficient to merely say that an electromagnetic wave is a transverse wave that has both ____________

• an electric and a magnetic component

• sound and magnetic waves

• electric and wave component

• sound and electric component

What will happen if you hold a polarized sunglass in front of you and rotate them. While looking at the blue sky, you will see the sky get _____.

• brighter

• dimmer

• invisible

• brighter and dimmer

What happens when two polarizing filters are placed so that their axes of polarization are perpendicular to each other?

• Transmitted light is slightly weaker

• There is no transmitted light

• transmitted light is polarized.

• Transmitted light oscillates in all directions.

How can you tell one form of electromagnetic energy from another?

• wavelength

• color

• amplitude

• speed

Which one of the following cannot be polarized?

• X-rays

• sound waves

• microwaves

• radio waves

What do all the types of radiation have in common?

• amplitude

• speed

• frequency

• wavelength

It is a law that applies only if the incident light passing through the analyzer is nearly polarized.

• Malus’s Law

• Law of Reflection

• Snell’s Law

• Refraction Law

What is polarized light?

• where electric field component oscillates in one plane

• where the magnetic field component oscillates in one plane.

• when waves oscillate in one direction

• where waves oscillate in one plane

What kind of wave is a light wave?

• pressure waves

• longitudinal wave

• sound waves

• transverse

On rotating the analyzer if the intensity of light rays coming out of it varies from maximum to zero, then the incident beam of light is ________.

• un-polarized

• partially polarized

• plane-polarized

• polarized