Chapter 27 Light as Waves

Which scientist said that light was a wave (27.1)

• Euclid

• Plato

• Socrates

• Einstein

What scientist thought that vision resulted from streamers or filaments emitted by the eye making contact with an object? (27.1)

• Plato

• Einstein

• Euclid

• Huygens

What characteristic of light did Huygens show evidence of? (27.1)

• Speed

• Frequency

• Diffraction

• Reflection

What is the current explanation of light? (27.1)

• It's only wave

• It's only particle

• It's particle and wave

• It's sound without a medium

What is the speed of light? (27.2)

• 300,000 m/s

• 300,000 km/s

• 3,000,000,000 m/s

• 300,000,000 km/s

This scientist used a system of mirrors to measure the speed of light (27.2)

• Faraday

• Michelson

• Einstein

• Newton

A light year is a... (27.2)

• time

• speed

• distance

• force

Of the following, which has the largest frequency? (27.3)

• visible light

• ultraviolet

• microwaves

• gamma rays

Of the following, which has the largest frequency?

• x-rays

• radio waves

• microwaves

• infrared rays

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A material that easily allows light to pass through (27.4)

• transparent

• translucent

• opaque