Assessment Choose the letter of the best answer. Write the chosen letter on a separate sheet of paper.

1. In what ways can light’s behaviour be described? a. Curve and linear motions

b. Projectile motion

c. Waves and particles

d. Waves and shadows

2. What are knocked off when light photons strike metal surfaces? a. Electrons

b. Neutrons

c. Positrons

d. Protons

3. What do light particles not able to exhibit as they move along obstacles or slits? a. Diffraction

c. Photoelectric effect

b. Doppler effect

d. Refraction

4. How does refraction happen when light rays travel in a straight line from air until it encounters
another medium like water? a. The speed of light will be slower as it enters water, making the angle of
refraction (θr) smaller than the angle of incidence (θi).

b. The angle of refraction (θr) will be bigger than the angle of incidence (θi) because light will travel
faster as it enters water.

c. Light rays will refract at a smaller angle because light rays will travel faster in water.

d. Light rays will refract at a bigger angle because light rays will travel slower in water

5. What is the angle of reflection made by light that is incident at 10o on the mirror, as shown in the
figure below? a. 100

b. 800

c. 900

d. 1100

6. A light ray passes from water into air. The angle that the light makes with the normal in air is 440. The
indices of refraction for both water and air are given in the diagram. What angle does the light ray make
with the normal as it approaches the boundary from the water?

a. 29.70

b. 30.0 0

c. 31.50
d. 58.50

Use your understanding of selective absorption of light waves to answer #s 7- 9. 7. A sheet of paper is
illuminated with white light (ROYGBIV) as shown in the figure. It is capable of absorbing ROYBIV. What
color does the paper reflect and what is the color of the paper?

a. green, blue

b. green, green

c. green, red

d. green, yellow

8. What colour/s of pigment are seen when it is capable of absorbing ROGBIV light waves?

a. green

b. reddish-green

c. yellow

d. yellow-orange

9. What colour/s of pigment are seen when it is capable of absorbing R light waves?

a. blue

b. bluish-yellow

c. greenish-blue

d. orange

10. What phenomenon happens when the frequency of incident light does not match the vibrational
frequency of the electrons in the atoms of a transparent material, such that light energy is reemitted on
the opposite side of the same material?

a. absorption

c. refraction

b. dispersion

d. transmission

11. Rainbow is a natural phenomenon that occurs when there are sunlight and drizzles of rain. What
interaction happens to produce such a scenery?

a. Drizzles of water trap heat energy from light and convert it to rainbow.

b. The colours of sunlight are split by molecules of water and change it to heat energy.

c. Water droplets serve as the transparent material where light energy passes through.
d. Light waves pass through droplets of water which disperse light into the colours of the rainbow

12. Light waves bump mixtures of particles in the air upon their propagation. Which among the
following statements is true when this happens?

a. Small particles in the air scatter blue waves most so we see the sky as blue.

b. Big particulates in the air scatter blue waves most so we see the sky as white and blue.

c. Light waves with longer wavelengths are scattered the most, so we see the sky as blue.

d. Red waves are scattered more by small particles in the air, so we see red colour during sunset.

13. White light is separated into its component colours when directed to a prism because the different
colours bend

a. away from the normal line at different angles.

b. away from the normal at same speed to each other.

c. towards the normal line at different angles.

d. towards the normal line at same speed to each other.

14. Why is red colour always seen on top while blue is at the bottom of a rainbow?

a. Blue has a short wavelength so it moves faster and refracted the most by droplets of water in the
atmosphere.

b. Blue has a long wavelength so it moves faster and refracted the most by water droplets in the air.

c. Red has a short wavelength so it moves faster and refracted the least by droplets of water in the
atmosphere.

d. Red has a long wavelength so it moves faster and refracted the least by water droplets in the air.

15. Light waves that are absorbed are transformed into heat energy. This is no longer reemitted as light
energy. In which of the following processes is sunlight absorbed and transformed into heat energy?

a. metabolism

c. respiration

b. photosynthesis

d. transpiration

Answers

1. D
2. D
3. A
4. A
5. B
 6. B
7. A
8. C
9. A
10. D
11. C
12. D
13. A
14. D
15. D

II.
1. 32.41
2. 34.75
3. Speed Of light
4. 1.56x10g m/s
5. 1.70

III.

1. C
2. A
3. A
4. B
5. C
6. C
7. B
8. C
9. C
10. D
11. D
12. A
13. A
14. D
15. B