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WorksheetsRays and Waves
Total questions: 20
Worksheet time: 10mins
What is shown in the diagram?
Diffuse Reflection
Rarefaction
Absorption
Regular Reflection
What is a feature of light?
Light is a form of radiation
Light travels not in straight lines
Light is the slowest thing there is
Light cannot travel through vacuum
If a narrow beam of white light is passed through a prism, it splits into a range of colours called a spectrum. What is the effect called?
Reflection
Deviation
Dispersion
All of the above
What is shown in the diagram?
Reflection
Refraction
Diffraction
Compression
Which statement is correct?
Microwave radiation has lower frequencies and longer wavelengths than visible light.
Total reflection happens when the critical angle is bigger than the angle of incidence.
The bending effect is not called refraction
Speed of light is 100000 kilometres per second
Put the following in the order of wavelength, starting with the longest
Ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays
X-rays, gamma rays, Ultraviolet
Gamma rays, X-rays, ultraviolet
Ultraviolet, light, infrared
Which row shows the natures of light waves, sound waves and X-rays?
longitudinal longitudinal transverse
longitudinal transverse longitudinal
transverse longitudinal transverse
transverse transverse transverse
Choose the correct statement
Angle of incidence is the angle between the refracted ray and the normal
Angle of refraction is the angle between the refracted ray and the incident ray
Angle of refraction is the angle between the refracted ray and the normal
Optical fibres are not flexible rods
Visible light has a frequency of approximately 5.0 × 1014Hz. M and N are two other types of electromagnetic radiation. The frequency of M is 5.0 × 106Hz. The frequency of N is 5.0 × 1015Hz. Which types of radiation are M and N?
radio waves infra-red
radio waves ultraviolet
ultraviolet X-rays
X-rays infra-red
Which objects are non-luminous?
Sun
Stars
Light bulb
Paper
Which objects are luminous?
Sun, Stars, Light bulb
Paper, Copybook
Sun, Stars, Glass
Window, Sun
Converging lens
Concave lens
All of the above
None of the above
Describe the image
real, inverted, larger than object
real, inverted, smaller than object
virtual, inverted, larger than the object
virtual, upright, smaller than object
Describe the image
Virtual, inverted, smaller than object
Virtual, Upright, Smaller than object
Virtual, upright, larger than object
None of the above
Which colour is deviated most by the prism?
Violet
Blue
Red
Yellow
Which colour is deviated least by the prism?
Red
Violet
Yellow
Blue
Light behaves like both a particle and a
Wave
Mass
Current
Field
What particles make up light?
Photons
Neutrons
Electrons
Quarks
Which of the following is the best example of specular reflection?
Mirror
Chair
Paper
Physics book
Does light travel faster in vacuum or in water?
Water
Vacuum
Both
