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What makes things visible in a room?
What makes things visible in a room?
Light
Light travels in straight lines.
Light travels in straight lines.
True
What is the effect called when light bends around a small opaque object?
What is the effect called when light bends around a small opaque object?
What are the two laws of reflection of light?
What are the two laws of reflection of light?
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What type of image is formed by a plane mirror?
What type of image is formed by a plane mirror?
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What happens to the size of the image when using a plane mirror?
What happens to the size of the image when using a plane mirror?
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The curved surface of a shining spoon acts like a _____ mirror.
The curved surface of a shining spoon acts like a _____ mirror.
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What observation can be made when viewing one's face in a curved surface of a spoon?
What observation can be made when viewing one's face in a curved surface of a spoon?
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Study Notes
Properties of Light
- Light makes objects visible by reflecting off their surfaces.
- A transparent medium allows light to pass through, enabling visibility.
- Common optical phenomena include image formation by mirrors and the colors of a rainbow.
Nature of Light
- Light generally travels in straight lines, evident through sharp shadows created by opaque objects.
- When light encounters a small obstacle, it tends to bend around it, resulting in diffraction.
- The wave theory of light can be insufficient for explaining interactions with matter, leading to the understanding of light as both a wave and a particle.
- The quantum theory reconciles these properties, depicting light in a more comprehensive manner.
Reflection of Light
- Highly polished surfaces, like mirrors, effectively reflect light.
- Laws of reflection:
- Angle of incidence equals angle of reflection.
- The incident ray, normal to the mirror, and the reflected ray are coplanar.
- Curved mirrors impact image characteristics differently than plane mirrors.
Characteristics of Images Formed by Plane Mirrors
- Images are:
- Always virtual and erect.
- Equal in size to the object.
- Located at the same distance behind the mirror as the object is in front.
- Laterally inverted, meaning left and right are flipped.
Activity with Curved Mirrors
- A curved surface, such as a spoon, can create varying images depending on the curvature:
- Experimenting with a spoon shows differences in image size and clarity based on the angle and distance from the face.
- Observations can reveal changes in the image characteristics when the spoon's orientation is reversed.
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Explore the fascinating concepts of light and its behavior in this quiz on Chapter 9: Light - Reflection and Refraction. Understand how light enables us to see objects around us and the principles behind its reflection and refraction in different mediums.
