LIGHT AND

GEOMETRIC OPTICS
 NATURE OF LIGHT
• speed in vacuum is constant
• historically fought over if it is a
wave or a particle
Newton claimed that light
was made up of particles.
What did he call these
particles?

A. quanta
B. corpuscles
C. spheroids
D. nuclei
Who was the scientist to
perform the double-slit
experiment?

A.James Clerk Maxwell

B.Heinrich Hertz
C.Robert Boyle
D.Thomas Young
When did Einstein
published a paper about
the photoelectric effect?

A.1900
B.1905
C.1910
D.1915
LIGHT AS A WAVE
LIGHT AS A WAVE
The frequency of a light
wave varies _____ to its
wavelength and varies
_____ to its energy.

A. directly; directly
B. directly; inversely
C. inversely; directly
D. inversely; inversely
In computing for the
energy of a light wave,
what universal constant
should be used?

A. emissivity
B. speed of light
C. mass of a photon
D. Planck’s constant
COLORS OF LIGHT
object:
white
source:
white
observation: white
object:
white
source:
blue
observation: blue
object:
white
source:
magenta
observation:magenta
object:
green
source:
green
observation: green
object:
green
source:
cyan
observation: green
object:
green
source:
red
observation: none
object:
yellow
source:
white
observation: yellow
object:
yellow
source:
red
observation: red
object:
yellow
source:
cyan
observation: green
A cyan light shines on a
magenta-coloured object.
What will be its observed
colour?

A. blue
B. red
C. green
D. magenta
A cyan-coloured object
appears to have no colour.
What colour of light is
shining on it?

A. red
B. blue
C. green
D. white
When yellow light is
shining on an object, it
appears to be green. What
is the object’s colour?

A. cyan
B. white
C. yellow
D. magenta
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
reflection
refraction
diffraction
interference
polarization
REFLECTION
REFLECTION
In what type of
reflection is the law of
reflection obeyed?

A.regular reflection
B.diffused reflection
C.both A and B
D.neither A nor B
When a plane mirror is
rotated by an angle of 5 °
the reflected ray will be
rotated by how much?

A. 2.5 °
B. 5 °
C. 85 °
D. 10 °
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
reflection
refraction
diffraction
interference
polarization
REFRACTION
 REFRACTION

Snell’s Law
𝒏𝟏 𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝜽𝟏 =𝒏𝟐 𝒔𝒊𝒏 𝜽𝟐
 REFRACTION
Critical Angle and
Total Internal Reflection
REFRACTION
Dispersion
Which quantity of light
is not changed when it
undergoes refraction?

A.direction
B.speed
C.frequency
D.wavelength
Where does a light ray
bend to when it came from
water and entered glass?

A. toward the normal

B. away from the normal
C. no bending
D. More information is
needed.
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
reflection
refraction
diffraction
interference
polarization
DIFFRACTION
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
reflection
refraction
diffraction
interference
polarization
INTERFERENCE
INTERFERENCE
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
reflection
refraction
diffraction
interference
polarization
Polarization by
Transmission
Polarization by
Reflection
Polarization by
Refraction
Polarization by
Scattering
PROPERTIES OF LIGHT
reflection
refraction
diffraction
interference
polarization
What property of light is
applied when you use
sunglasses to reduce glare
from sunlight?

A. refraction
B. diffraction
C. polarization
D. interference
GEOMETRIC OPTICS
• deals with how light interacts with
mirrors and lenses to form images
• reflection is to mirrors as
refraction is to lenses
GEOMETRIC OPTICS
MIRRORS
MIRRORS
LENSES
LENSES
LENSES
Which of the following is true about
images formed?

A. Virtual images are always

reduced.
B. Virtual images are always upright.
C. Real images are formed at the side
where the object is in lenses.
D. No image is formed when the
object is at the center of
curvature.
When the object is placed in
front of a plane mirror what are
the characteristics of the image?

A. upright, magnified, and real

B. upright, the same size, and
virtual
C. inverted, reduced, and real
D. inverted, magnified, and
virtual
A 5-cm candle is placed 30
cm in front of a concave lens
whose focal length is 10 cm.
Which of the following will be
the height of the image?

A. +1.25 cm
B. -1.25 cm
C. +3 cm
D. -3 cm
How many images will be
formed if a girl stands in front
of two plane mirrors forming
an angle of 30° in between?

A. five
B. eleven
C. twelve
D. infinite
What kind of mirror must be
used to produce an upright
image 1/3 as large as the
object when placed at 18 cm
in front of it?

A. convex mirror
B. concave mirror
C. plane mirror
D. pocket mirror