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Chapter 27 Physics

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show light is the only thing you see, all visible objects either reflect or emit light, most of what we see is reflected light  
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what are sources of light?   show
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show some materials let light pass through-transparent (glass, air, water) most things don't let light pass at all-opaque (wood, metal)  
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what is translucent?   show
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show it has a dual nature, part particle and part wave  
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show light has been studied for thousands of years, greek philosophers thought it was particles that entered the eye and created vision others-streamers or filaments emitted from eye made contact with objects  
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what did newton think?   show
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show light was waves and beams could pass through each other like waves do but people still believed newton  
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what did t young do?   show
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show photo electric effect, consists of particles (mass less bundles of electromagnetic energy packaged in bundles called photons) move as waves  
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show discovered speed of light to be 300,000 km/s, using spinning mirror, 1st american-nobel prize  
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what did galileo do?   show
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show astronomer who studied moons of jupiter to learn about speed of light  
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what is the speed of light?   show
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show around earth 7.5 times in one second, 8 minutes for light from the sun to reach earth, 4 years for light from the nearest star (AlphaCentauri), the distance light can travel in one year at 300,000km/s is called a lightyear  
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what is the electromagnetic spectrum?   show
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what is light?   show
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show a wave that is partly magnetic and partly electric-electromagnetic wave, light is only one kind of electromagnetic wave, range-electromagnetic spectrum  
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helpful hints-electromagnetic spectrum   show
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what is the lowest frequency of light we can see? highest?   show
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show they all travel at the same speed-the speed of light, but they are different in their frequencies and wavelengths  
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what is infrared?   show
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what is ultraviolet?   show
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