Activity SHEET NO. 1.

A
Name/s: ________________________________________________ Group No. : ____________________

Guide Questions:
1. What is Photon?
2. Where does the energy of the photon depend on?
3. How is frequency related to energy?
4. Which has more photons yet low frequency and low energy but can give more power to the area, red
light or blue light?
5. What is the speed of light in a vacuum and this is due to what factor?
6. What is the formula for photons containing energy?
7. What is Photoelectric Effect?
8. What paved the way for quantum revolution?
 Activity SHEET NO. 1. B
Name/s: ________________________________________________ Group No. : ____________________

Guide Questions:
1. Define the following terms:
 Zero Mass
 No Restless Energy
 Elementary Particles
 Compton Effect
 Activity SHEET NO. 1. C
Name/s: ________________________________________________ Group No. : ____________________
Guide Questions for C:
1. Give the significant contributions of the following Scientists:
 Gilbert Lewis and Frithiof Wolfers-
 Euclid-
 Ptolemy-
 Ibn Al-Haytham-
 Renể Descartes-
 Christian Huygens-
 Thomas Young-
 Augustin Fresnel-
 James Clerk Maxwell-
 Max Planck-
 Albert Einstein-
 Activity SHEET NO. 1. D
Name/s: ________________________________________________ Group No. : ____________________
Guide Questions for D:

1. How did Albert Einstein prove that light is a particle in a form of photon and carries energy?
2. What is the value of photon’s energy equivalent to Planck’s constant?
3. Who further proved that light also behaves as a wave?
 Activity SHEET NO. 1. E
Name/s: ________________________________________________ Group No. : ____________________

Guide Questions for E:

1. What are the facts about photons?

2. Further explain these facts.
 Activity No. 2
Group 1:
Why do photographers use red light in producing pictures in dark room?
When enlarging a photographic film negative onto paper to create a print in the darkroom, a safelight is
usedto not overexpose the paper with light. A safelight is a light bulb in a housing covered by a filter that is
usually red or amber. A red or amber safelights are only used for black & white enlarging paper because these
colors provide illumination to the darkroom but do not produce the wavelength of light that affects this type
of photographic paper. Other more faint colors, usually yellow LED lights, can be used for color darkroom
paper, but it is more common to use a color enlarger in the dark and process the print using a color paper
processing machine.

Group 2:
Why do people get sunburn when exposed to ultraviolet light?
The energy from the sun that reaches the earth’s surface is around 3-7% UV, 44% visible light and 53%
infrared (IR). UV causes disproportionately more damage because shorter wavelength means higher energy,
so each photon (light particle) that hits your skin has more energy.
But newer research has been finding that the visible and infrared wavelengths can also cause skin damage too.
Even though each particle has less energy, there’s a lot more of them, so it ends up being almost a “death by a
thousand paper cuts” situation.
Shorter wavelengths of visible light that are closer to the UV range are the ones that have gotten the
most attention, since they’re relatively more energetic and more damaging. In particular, it’s the wavelengths
in the blue/purple region (400-500 nm) that have been found to be the most damaging. This shouldn’t really
be surprising, since the divide between UV and visible light is pretty arbitrary, and is based on what our eyes
can detect, not how our skin reacts.
Shorter wavelengths have higher energies, so blue and purple light is sometimes called high energy visible
(HEV) light.

Group 3:
How do CDs work with the help of light?
With the invention of CDs, people finally had a more reliable way of collecting music. CD players are
neither mechanical nor magnetic but optical: they use flashing laser lights to record and read back information
from the shiny metal discs. One of the main problems with LPs and cassettes was the physical contact
between the player and the record or tape being played, which gradually wore out. In a CD player, the only
thing that touches the CD is a beam of light: the laser beam bounces harmlessly off the surface of the CD, so
the disc itself should (in theory) never wear out. Another advantage is that the CD player can move its laser
quickly to any part of the disc, so you can instantly flip from track to track or from one part of a movie to
another.