Optics
Across
- 5. This reflection happens when light reflects on an ordinary object
- 6. cloudy
- 9. see through
- 10. High frequency waves have __________ wavelengths
- 14. Heat radiation
- 18. The distance from trough to trough
- 20. This reflection happens when light reflects on a shiny surface
- 21. This radiation has longest wavelength and lowest energy and frequency
- 22. the study of sight and the behaviour of light
- 24. Dispersion is when white light separates into _________ colours
Down
- 1. Radiation that we can see (2 words)
- 2. The height of a wave crest as measured from the rest postion
- 3. Light bends when it passes from one substance to another
- 4. doesn't let light come through it at all
- 7. Propagation through a vacuum means light travels through_________ space
- 8. Most dangerous for radiation (2 words)
- 11. When light hits something and bounces back
- 12. the first person to measure the speed of light
- 13. the speed is 300,000 km/s
- 15. light travels in a straight line
- 16. the first person to try to measure the speed of light
- 17. The unit of Frequency
- 19. used to photograph teeth and bones
- 23. Propagation through substances means light can travel through ________ substances, but not all