Light
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- Lens
- a curved piece of glass of some other transparent material that is used to refract light
- transparent
- can see object on otherside clearly (glass)
- X rays
- high energy used in X ray equipment
- Reflect
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- visible light
- the protion of the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can see with their eyes
- refraction
- the bending of light when it passes across the boundary between two media with different indices of refraction.
- opaque
- cannot see light or an object through it (cardboard)
- convex mirror
- reflects light from its OUTWARDLY curving surface and produces an upright, reduced, virtual image
- prism
- piece of transparent material that bends light and seperates it into colors of rainbow
- Ultraviolet rays
- invisible energy waves in sunlight which cause skin to tan
- concave mirror
- mirror in which the reflecting surface curves in ward [ makes objects bigger ]
- Infrared rays
- rays of heat energy sensed by our nervous system
- translucent
- can see light throug it, but you cannot identify an object (tracing paper)
- Reflection
- The bouncing back of a ray of light, sound, or heat when they ray hits a surface that it doesnt go through
- Radio waves
- microwaves, TV, radio energy
- REfract
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