Light Optics

The bouncing back of a wave when it hits a surface through which it cannot pass.

• Reflection
• Digital picture
• Laser eye surgery
• compound eye
• nocturnal animals have these types of eyes

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NGSS.MS-PS4-1

NGSS.MS-PS4-2

The bending of a wave as it passes at an angle from one medium to another

• Refraction
• Reflection
• Digital picture
• Laser eye surgery
• compound eye

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a material that transmits light without scattering

• transparent material
• Refraction
• Reflection
• Digital picture
• Laser eye surgery

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a material that scatters light as it passes through

• translucent material
• transparent material
• Refraction
• Reflection
• Digital picture

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

An area from which light is blocked.

• shadow
• translucent material
• transparent material
• Refraction
• Reflection

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

reflects or absorbs all of the light that strikes it

• opaque material
• shadow
• translucent material
• transparent material
• Refraction

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

angle of incidence = angle of reflection

• law of reflection
• opaque material
• shadow
• translucent material
• transparent material

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

a mirror with a surface that curves inward

• concave mirror
• law of reflection
• opaque material
• shadow
• translucent material

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NGSS.MS-PS4-2

imaginary line drawn perpendicular to the surface of a mirror or any surface

• normal line
• concave mirror
• law of reflection
• opaque material
• shadow

the production of light as a result of high temperature

• Incadescence
• normal line
• concave mirror
• law of reflection
• opaque material