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____ happens when light moves from a medium with a higher index of refraction to a medium with a lower index of refraction with a high inci…
The minimum incident angle at which ____ occurs is called the critical angle.
The minimum incident angle at which total internal reflection occurs is called the ____.
____ refract light to form images of objects.
Lenses ____ light to form images of objects.
____ have focal points on each side.
____ lenses are converging systems.
Convex lenses are ____ systems.
____ lenses are diverging systems.
Concave lenses are ____ systems.
____ lenses produce real, inverted images or virtual, upright images.
Convex lenses produce ____ images.
Concave lenses produce ____ images.
____ lenses produce virtual, upright images.
Lenses with ____ require use of the lensmaker’s equation .
Lenses with non-negligible thickness require use of ____.
Spherical mirrors and lenses are imperfect. They are therefore subject to specific types of errors or ____.
____ is a blurring of the periphery of an image as a result of inadequate reflection of parallel beams at the edge of a mirror or inadequat…
Spherical aberration is ____
____ is a dispersive effect within a spherical lens.
Chromatic aberration is ____
____ is the bending and spreading out of light waves as they pass through a narrow slit.
Diffraction may produce a ____ fringes with the addition of a lens.
Diffraction may produce a large central light fringe surrounded by alternating light and dark fringes with the addition of ____.
Young’s double-slit experiment shows ____.
____ shows the constructive and destructive interference of waves that occur as light passes through parallel slits, resulting in minima (d…
____ uses the bending of light rays to create a model of molecules.
____ occurs between the light reflected from the top and bottom surfaces of a film.
Thin film interference occurs between ____.
____ is light in which the electric fields of all the waves are oriented in the same direction
Plane-polarized light is light in which the ____ of all the waves are oriented in the same direction
Plane-polarized light is created by passing unpolarized light through a ____.
In ____, all of the light rays have electric fields with equal intensity but constantly rotating direction.
In circularly polarized light, all of the light rays have electric fields with ____ direction.
Circularly polarized light is created by exposing unpolarized light to ____.
____ light is created by exposing unpolarized light to special pigments or filters.
Optics equation:____
____ equation:
Magnification equation:____
Lensmaker’s equation:____
Power of lens equation:____
Focal length of multiple lens system equation:____
Power of multiple lens system equation:____
Magnification of multiple lens system equation:____
Positions of dark fringes in slit–lens setup equation: ____
____ equation: a sin θ = n λ
Positions of dark fringes in double-slit setup equation:____
____ equation: