Zusammenfassung der Ressource
Light and Optical
Systems
- Properties of
Light
- Light travels in
straight lines
- Light can be reflected
- Light can
bend/ refract
- Light is a form of
energy
- Glare is the
light reflected
off of glass
- Shadows
- Shadows only from opaque
objects, some translucent but
never transparent.
- Light cannot go
through opaque
objects like us, so it
creates a shadow
instead.
- When an opaque object is closer to the light source,
it creates a bigger shadow because it is blocking
more light.
- Light Interactions
- Transparent
Anmerkungen:
- light rays travel straight through these
objects and that is why we can see through them clearly.
- Translucent
Anmerkungen:
- some light can pas through, not all the
light rays- this is why we sometimes see through
clearly but not much, might be blurry
- Opaque
Anmerkungen:
- light DOES NOT pass through these
types of objects so we cannot see through
them and they make shadows instead.
- Opaque objects like like pencils are
non-luminous because they do not
produce their own light, unlike a
flashlight or the sun.
- When a light source is closer to your eyes, it is
really bright because most of the rays goes into
our eyes. When the light source is farther away
from your eyes, it is not as bright because
fewer rays hit your eyes because the distance
- Early Light Ideas
- Pythagoras
Anmerkungen:
- thought light was beams
and thought the light beams came out
of our eyes
- Euclid
Anmerkungen:
- angle of reflection, the incoming
beam and reflected beam are the same angle
- Al-Haytham
Anmerkungen:
- accurately
describes vision, light
reflects off objects and into
our eyes
- Isaac Newton
Anmerkungen:
- figured out the different
frequencies of light by shining it through a prism.
- Albert A. Michelson
Anmerkungen:
- discovered the
speed of light.
- Concave Mirrors
- Curve inward
- Collect
light
- Obey the Law of
Reflection
- Rays head to a common point, the
FOCAL POINT
Anmerkungen:
- Collecting light and bringing it all into a single point. Where all the reflected light rays intersect.
- Ex. Flashlight, telescope,
car headlights.
- If the object is far from the focal point
of the mirror, the reflected rays form
an upside down image, which is
much smaller than the object.
- But when the object is closer to the
focal point, the image becomes
larger than the actual object.
- If the object is between the focal
point and the mirror, it appears
right side up and bigger.
- Convex
Mirrors
- Curves
outward
- Spreades light outwards
Anmerkungen:
- Opposite of concave mirror.
- Reflected images appear smaller
than they are
- Ex. car side mirrors, security
mirrors, etc
Anmerkungen:
- Because car mirrors say "Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear" the reflected image is smaller because they reflect more scenery.
- Convex mirrors reflect
parallel rays as if they are
coming from behind the
mirror
- Waves
- Wavelength
Anmerkungen:
- The distance from one crest to another crest- the length between the crests.
- Amplitude
Anmerkungen:
- The height of a wave from rest to crest position.
- Frequency
Anmerkungen:
- The number of times the wave goes on in a certain amount of time
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum
Anmerkungen:
- 1. Radio Waves
Anmerkungen:
- Used for radios, communication. These are the longest wavelengths.
- 2. Microwaves
Anmerkungen:
- -used to heat up food
-shorter than radio waves
-carry more energy than radio waves
-make water particles in food vibrate
- 3. Infrared Waves
Anmerkungen:
- -we can't see them
-felt as heat
-special equipment to actually see them
- 4. Ultraviolet Waves
Anmerkungen:
- -carries more energy than visible light
-can burn the skin
-skin risks like cancer
-most rays absorbed by ozone layer
-can be protected by sunblock
- 5. Visible Light Waves
Anmerkungen:
- Natural Sources of Visible Light:
-stars
-combustion
-Bioluminescence
-Chemiluminescence
- Artificial Sources of Visible Light
-Incandescent Light
-Fluorescent Light
-LED (light emitting-diodes) Light
- 6. X-Rays
Anmerkungen:
- -high energy radiation
-useful for medical imagine
-can see your bones
- 7. Gamma Rays
Anmerkungen:
- -high energy radiation
-used to kill cancer cells
-
- form of
energy
- travel out in
all directions
- Eyes ?️?️
- Outer Parts
- Cornea
- Sclera
- Optic Nerve
- Fluid Parts
- Aqueous Humor (Front)
- Vitreous Humor (Rear)
- Front Parts
- Iris
- Pupil
- Lens
- Ciliary Muscle
- Rear Parts
- Retina
- Rod Cells
- Cone Cells
- Blood Vessels
- Fovia
- Blind Spot
- Camera
- Controls Light
- Diaphragm
- Aperture
- Allows Light to Enter
- Shutter
- Collects light
- Double Convex Lens
- Stores Image
- Colour Film
- Black and White
Film
- Colours of Light
- Primary Colours
- Green
- Blue
- Red
- Secondary Colours
- Yellow
Anmerkungen:
- Cyan
Anmerkungen:
- Magenta
Anmerkungen:
- Sources of Light
- Natural
- Stars
- Combustion
- Bioluminescence
- Chemiluminescence
- Artificial
- Incandescent
- Fluorescent
- LED