Lesson One Topics

Lesson One Overview
Waves and Their Characteristics
Types of Waves
A Brief History of Light
Electromagnetic Waves
Waves and Energy
The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Conclusion


Activities and Quizzes

Lesson One : Activities and Quizzes

Activity 1: Quiz

True or false: A wave created by the wind in a field of grain moves across a field without any of the stalks of grain moving across the entire field.
True
False
Which of the following are true?
Mechanical waves occur only inside machines.
Mechanical waves require a medium in which to travel.
Every wave is a mechanical wave.
A transverse wave propagates by:
Pushing the medium in front of it.
Making the medium oscillate back and forth, parallel to the direction of the wave.
Making the medium oscillate up and down, perpendicular to the direction of the wave.
Wavelength is:
The distance between two crests of a wave.
The maximum displacement of the wave above or below the center line of the wave.
The number of crests that pass a certain point per second.
Isaac Newton had believed that light was a stream of ________ but Thomas Young showed in 1801 that light consisted of ________
Corpuscles, waves
Waves, corpuscles
Matter, ether
Which of the following is true?
Light is a transverse wave.
Light is an electromagnetic wave.
Light waves are self-propagating.
All of the above.
None of the above.
If the wavelength of a wave increases:
The amplitude decreases.
The velocity changes.
The frequency decreases.
Which of the following forms of electromagnetic radiation has the highest energy?
Radio waves
X-rays
Microwaves

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