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Optics
Eye
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Persistence of Vision | is where your brain memories the picture for a second. |
| Reflection | the bouncing of light |
| Refration | the bending of light as it passes from one medium, e.g. air, into another, such as glass |
| Absorption | When the colors are absorbed and only one is reflected |
| Transparent | a material that is capable of allowing clear viewing of objects placed under it or next to it |
| Translucent | A material that trasmits light but does not allow objects to be seen through it |
| Opaque | You can not see through it |
| Convex | a surface that is curved or rounded like the exterior of a cirlce or sphere |
| Concave | a surface that is rounded inward like the inside of a bowl |
| prisim | a trasparent object which is capable of separating white light into the colors of the spectrum. |
| spectrum | the colors present in white light made visible after bing separated, for example, by a prism. The order of the spectrum is: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. |
| spectrum order | roy g biv (red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet |
| filters What colors do they make | (blank) |