Geometric Optics

What is the primary focus of geometric optics?

• the study of light's wave properties

• the study of light's interaction with matter

• the study of light's rays, reflection and refraction

• the study of light's duality of nature

Which of the following is true according to the law of reflection?

• The angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection

• 
  The angle of incidence equals the angle of refraction

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  The angle of incidence is always greater than the angle of reflection

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  The incident and reflected rays are perpendicular to each other

Which type of mirror produces a real, inverted image?

• Plane mirror

• Convex mirror

• Concave mirror

• Concave lens

When light rays scatter in all directions

• They focus parallel rays to a point

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  They produce only real images

• The images are all inverted

• They diverge light rays

The corpuscular theory of light was proposed by __________.

• Descartes

• Newton

• Huygens

• Aristotle

Which scientist demonstrated the wave nature of light using his double-slit experiment?

• Thomas Young

• Isaac Newton

• James Clerk Maxwell

• Albert Einstein

An image that you can see when you look into a mirror, but does not really exist is called which of the following?

• Real image

• Virtual Image

• Fake image

• Digital Image

The following is a picture of what type of mirror? 

• Plane Mirror

• Two-way mirror

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  Convex (diverging) mirror

• Concave (converging) mirror

a mirror with a surface that curves inward like the inside of a bowl

• Plane mirror

• Two-way mirror

• Concave mirror

• Convex mirror

The process of light bouncing off a surface

• Interference

• Refraction

• Diffraction

• Reflection