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Light Properties

Total questions: 10

Worksheet time: 5mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

What was the major advocate for the particle theory?

a)

Newton

b)

Plato

c)

Maxwell

d)

Huygens

2.

Light has very little diffraction because of its...

a)

small wavelength

b)

large wavelength

c)

Particle size

d)

velocity

3.

When light bends as it moves from one medium to another, this is called...

a)

refraction

b)

reflection

c)

diffraction

d)

deflection

4.

the speed of light is fastest in a...

a)

vacuum

b)

water

c)

air

d)

glass

5.

Young's experiment (double slit experiment) demonstrated that light acted more like a ....

a)

wave

b)

particle

c)

wave and particle

d)

neither

6.

Areas of destructive interference between two light waves shows up as

a)

dark areas

b)

bright areas

7.

Who is well known for their contributions to the wave model of light?

a)

Huygens

b)

Newton

c)

Pythagoreans

d)

Plato

8.

The particle model of light explained what property of light well?

a)

rectilinear propagation

b)

Diffraction

c)

Refraction

d)

Speed of light

9.

The speed of light has been measured to be roughly...

a)

3.00 x 108 ms 3.00\ x\ 10^8\ \frac{m}{s\ }

b)

343 ms343\ \frac{m}{s}

c)

3.00 ms3.00\ \frac{m}{s}

d)

343 x 108 ms343\ x\ 10^8\ \frac{m}{s}

10.

When light travels from a slow to faster medium, there is a angle at which the light will be entirely reflected instead of refracted. This angle is called...

a)

critical angle

b)

refracted angle

c)

reflected angle

d)

incident angle