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LIGHT AND THE ELECTROMAGNETIC SPECTRUM
1) In terms of heat transfer, how is radiation different from conduction and convection?
2) Write the electromagnetic waves in order from lowest energy to highest energy: infrared light, X-rays, red light, gamma rays, and
microwaves
3) Sunscreen, if used properly, can protect you from getting a sunburn. From which electromagnetic waves must sunscreen protect the
skin?
4) List the seven colours that Newton identified in the visible spectrum of white light.
5) List some devices that you have used or plan to use today that involve electromagnetic waves.
6) Match each electromagnetic wave from column A with the term from column B that is most closely related:
COLUMN A COLUMN B
X- rays vitamin D
ultraviolet light telecommunications
radio waves cancer treatment
infrared light radar
microwaves theatre/concert effects
gamma rays baggage screening
visible light DVD player remote control
7) Briefly describe how you could demonstrate that white light is composed of many different colours.
RAY MODEL OF LIGHT
1) What is the ray model of light?
2) Draw a simple ray diagram of light rays travelling out from a light bulb.
3) What are two properties of light that you can show using a ray diagram?
4) What three things can happen with light strikes an object?
5) Use a labeled ray diagram to show the difference between transparent, translucent, and opaque objects.
6) What determines how light rays behave when they strike an object?
7) a) Name the two parts that make up most mirrors.
b) What is the purpose of each part?
8) Clearly explain what is meant by the term geometric optics.
9) Classify each of these materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque: a textbook, frosted glass, a single sheet of thin tissue paper, a
clean sheet of glass, a rock, clean air, apple juice, sunglasses.
10) What has historically been the main use for plane mirrors?
11) A basketball does not give off light. Explain with the aid of a ray diagram how you are able to see a basketball.
12) Explain why a piece of metal would make a better reflector than a piece of wood.
13) Explain, with the help of ray diagrams, why the shadow created by your hand on a wall grows larger when you move your hand
toward the light source.
14) Under what conditions can a transparent material become translucent or even opaque?
15) A spotlight shines on an actor on a stage. Describe the type of shadow the actor is likely to cast.
LAWS OF REFLECTION AND PLANE MIRRORS
1) In your own words, clearly distinguish between the terms normal, angle of incidence, and angle of reflection
2) Using a diagram, distinguish between the incident ray, the reflected ray, and the normal.
3) Clearly state the two laws of reflection.
4) a) What is the difference between specular reflection and diffuse reflection?
b) Provide some examples of both specular reflection and diffuse reflection other than those given.
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5) a) If you were painting the walls in your classroom, would you want the walls to exhibit specular or diffuse reflection? Explain.
b) Given your choice, should you use gloss or matte paint?
6) a) What would be the angle of reflection for an angle of incidence of 32o?
b) What would be the angle of incidence for an angle of reflection of 47o?
c) What would the angle of reflection be if the incident ray was 40o from the reflecting mirror surface?
CONCAVE MIRRORS
Concave Mirrors Worksheet*****
1) List examples of how concave mirrors might be used at your school.
2) Describe the difference between a real image and a virtual image.
3) Use a diagram to locate the focus in a concave mirror.
4) In your own words, state the imaging rules for concave mirrors.
5) You are looking at your image in a makeup or shaving mirror. Where is your head located with respect to the focus (F).
CONVEX MIRRORS
Convex mirrors worksheet *****
1) List examples of how convex mirrors might be used at your school.
2) Why will a diverging (convex) mirror never produce a real image? Include a diagram in your explanation.
3) What is the relationship between type and the attitude of an image?
4) a) Why are convex mirrors placed on sharp turns in parking garages?
b) State other uses for convex mirrors.
CALCULATIONS FOR CURVED MIRRORS
1) In a diagram, show the relationship between C, the centre of curvature of a concave mirror, and the focal point, F, of the mirror.
2) What information does the sign (+ or -) of the image distance give you?
3) A concave mirror has a focal length of 5cm. An object 2cm high is 11cm from the mirror. Calculate the image height and image
distance.
4) Suppose that you are holding a shaving mirror 30cm from you face and the magnified image of your face is upright. A classmate tells
you that the focal length of the mirror is 25cm. Explain to your classmate why this focal length is not possible.
5) Explain the difference between a real image and a virtual image.
6) A convex mirror has a focal length of -0.90m. An object with a height of 0.40m is 2.5m from the mirror.
a) Calculate the image distance.
b) Calculate the image height.
7) A convex security mirror is a warehouse has a focal length of -0.50m. A forklift, which is 2.2m tall, is 6.0m from the mirror.
a) Calculate the image distance.
b) Calculate the image height.
8) A convex security mirror has a focal length of -0.25m. A person with a height of 1.5m is 4.0m from the mirror.
a) Calculate the image distance.
b) Calculate the image height.
9) An object 0.4m tall is placed 2.5m in front of a convex mirror that has a focal length of -90cm.
a) Calculate the image distance.
b) Calculate the image height.
10) An object 25 cm tall is placed 80cm in front of a convex mirror that has a radius of curvature of 1.5m.
a) Calculate the image distance distance.
b) Calculate the image height.
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INDEX OF REFRACTION AND SNELL’S LAW
1) The speed of light in leaded glass is 1.66x108m/s. What is the index of refraction of this type of glass?
2) The speed of light in quartz is 2.1x108m/s. What is the index of refraction of quartz?
3) The speed of light through a material is 1.24x108m/s. What material is it?
4) What is the speed of light through ethyl alcohol?
5) What is the speed of light through vegetable oil?
6) What is the speed of light through a diamond?
7) When light passes from air into water at an angle of 30o from the normal, what is the angle of refraction?
8) When light passes from water into a diamond at an angle of 45o from the normal, what is the angle of refraction?
9) The refractive index of the lens in a human eye s 1.41. If a ray of light goes from the air into the lens at an angle of 55.0 o,
what is the angle of refraction?
10) A ray of light approaches a jar of honey at an angle of 30.0o. If the angle of refraction is 19.5o, what is the refractive index
of honey?
11) A block of amber is placed in water and a laser beam travels from the water through the amber. The angle of incidence is
35o while the angle of refraction is 24o. What is the index of refraction of amber?
12) A red laser beam travels from Plexiglass into lemon oil. The angle of incidence is 40.0 o and the angle of refraction is 44.4o.
What is the refractive index of lemon oil?
CRITICAL ANGLE AND TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION
1) What two conditions must be fulfilled in order for total internal reflection to occur?
2) Why does total internal reflection occur only when light travels more slowly through the first medium than in the second and not the
other way around? Include a ray diagram with your answer.
3) The critical angle for sapphire is 34.4o. For each angle of incidence, determine if it would result in total internal reflection in a
sapphire.
A. 23.7o B. 34.7o C. 53.4o D. 31.5o
4) What is the advantage of using triangular prisms over plane mirrors in optical devices requiring the reflection of light?
5) Will you get more total internal reflection with a medium that has a small critical angle or with one that has a large critical angle?
Explain.
6) Briefly describe three applications that make use of the total internal reflection of light.
7) The figure below shows light traveling through two different media. In which diagrams would total internal reflection be possible if
the angle of incidence were increased?
8) Look again at the figure below. For each diagram, in which medium would total internal reflection occur? Explain your answers.
CONVERGING AND DIVERGING LENSES
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1) Why is knowledge of lenses important even if you do not require glasses?
2) What is the difference between a converging lens and a diverging lens? Mention the paths of light rays in your explanation.
3) a) How many refractions actually occur as a light ray travels through a lens? Identify the locations of these refractions on a diagram.
b) Why is it possible to simplify the number of actual refractions in a lens down to one refraction at a central line through the optical
centre?
4) Can a converging lens have more than one focus? Explain.
5) You are given two lenses, a converging lens and a diverging lens. Can you tell them apart just by feeling their shape? Explain.
6) a) On what side of a converging lens is the principal focus located? Explain.
b) Where is the principal focus of a diverging lens located?
c) Why is a diverging lens different from a converging lens?
IMAGES IN LENSES
Lens Ray Diagrams Worksheet *****
1) a) In your own words, state the imaging rules for converging lenses.
b) How are these rules slightly different for diverging lenses?
2) Why does a diverging lens never produce a real image?
3) How is the virtual image produced by a converging lens different from the virtual image produced by a diverging lens?
4) Write a general statement that is valid for both kinds of lenses that summarizes the relationship between the type and the attitude
of the image.
5) When you watch a movie projected onto a screen, you are seeing an image. Traditional-style movie projectors include a light and a
lens to project the picture onto the screen.
a) What type of lens is used in the projector? Explain.
b) Draw a ray diagram that includes the film (the object), the lens, and the image on the screen.
c) Describe the characteristics of this image.
HUMAN EYE
1) Describe at least three similarities between a camera and the human eye.
2) What is meant by, “we actually see with our brain”?
3) What parts of the eye are responsible for viewing objects?
4) Which part of the eye does the “fine tuning” when it comes to viewing an image? How is this accomplished? What is this called and
what structures are involved?
5) When an image is produced on the retina of the eye, it is inverted. Why do we not see everything in our view upside down?
6) Briefly describe 2 diseases of the eye, where they occur, what the affected person experiences, and what causes them.
HUMAN EYE- VISION PROBLEMS
1) a) What is the difference between far-sightedness and near-sightedness?
b) What simple lens shape would correct each of these problems?
2) a) People often require reading glasses as they get older. What vision problem do these people actually have, and what causes it?
b) Which corrective lens shape corrects this problem, a positive meniscus or a negative meniscus? Explain.
3) Glasses were used to start fire in Lord of the Flies. Would eyeglasses to correct near-sightedness be able to do this? Explain.
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CONCAVE MIRRORS WORKSHEET SNC2D Name_______________
a) Draw a ray diagram for each to locate the image.
b) State the characteristics (SALT). *note- diagrams are not to scale
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CONVEX MIRRORS WORKSHEET SNC2D Name_______________
a) Draw a ray diagram for each to locate the image.
b) State the characteristics (SALT). *note- diagrams are not to scale
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LENSE RAY DIAGRAMS WORKSHEET SNC2D Name_______________
a) Draw a ray diagram for each to locate the image.
b) State the characteristics (SALT). *note- diagrams are not to scale
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