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Light and Sound Answers

This document provides answers to questions about light and sound. It describes how sound is generated through vibrations and travels in waves, and how loudness and pitch relate to amplitude and frequency. It also discusses the main parts of the human ear and how they work together to allow us to hear sound. Regarding light, it lists the sun, light bulbs and computer screens as light sources and explains reflection diagrams. It compares specular and diffuse reflection and draws ray diagrams for concave and convex mirrors and lenses.

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Light and Sound Answers

This document provides answers to questions about light and sound. It describes how sound is generated through vibrations and travels in waves, and how loudness and pitch relate to amplitude and frequency. It also discusses the main parts of the human ear and how they work together to allow us to hear sound. Regarding light, it lists the sun, light bulbs and computer screens as light sources and explains reflection diagrams. It compares specular and diffuse reflection and draws ray diagrams for concave and convex mirrors and lenses.

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Light and sound questions with answers

1. Can you label the main parts of human ear?

2. Explain how these parts work together so we can hear


sound.

Sound waves are focussed by the pinna and channelled into the inner ear. The waves would travel
through the ear canal and cause the ear drum to vibrate. The vibration is then converted to electrical
signals inside the cochlea. These signals are then transferred to the brain through the auditory
nerve.

3. Can you describe how sound is generated?

Sound is generated by vibrations and it travels in the form of waves.

4. Can you link the loudness and pitch to the sound wave?

The higher the amplitude the wave has, the louder the sound

The higher the frequency (the number of waves travelling in a certain amount of time), the higher
the pitch

5. Give three examples of things are sources of light

The Sun, working light bulb, your computer screen when working etc

6. Can you give examples that are not sources of light? Why can we see them if they don’t
produce light themselves?
A chair, table, pencil case, jacket. Anything that does not produce their own light. We can see these
objects because light is produced from a light source which shines on the surface of the object. The
light is then reflected (bounces off the surface) into our eyes hence we can see them.

7. Draw a ray diagram of reflection on a flat surface.

8. Explain the difference between diffuse and specular (also called regular) reflection. Draw a
ray diagram of each. Can you think of some examples when these occur?

Specular (regular) reflection occurs when the surface is flat and a perfect image can be observed
because all the light rays are reflected like the diagram above

Diffuse reflection occurs when the surface is no longer flat causing the light rays to be reflected in all
different direction hence unable to form a full image.

9. Draw concave and convex mirror ray diagrams.

Concave mirror: The reflective surface is bulged inwards (that is why the
rear is shaded out). Concave mirror is called a converging mirror because
it focuses light together onto one point.

Convex mirror: The reflective surface is bulged outwards. It is called a


diverging mirror because the light rays scatter away from each other.
10. Draw concave and convex lens ray diagrams

11. Briefly describe how the human eyes work.

Light gets focused by the cornea and lens. Iris controls the size of the pupil which controls how much
light goes into the eye. Light shines through the vitreous humor and then onto the retina. The image
is translated into the electrical signals and then sent to the brain through the optic nerve.

12. What are the primary colours and secondary colours?

Primary colours: Red, blue and green

Secondary colours:

red + blue  magenta

blue + green cyan

red + green  yellow

13. Coloured objects

White light shining on a green bag, what colour would it appear?

White light shining on a yellow bag, what colour would it appear?

Blue light shining on green bag, what colour would it appear?

Blue light shining on cyan bag, what colour would it appear?

Remember that we only see the colours that are reflected. The colours that are absorbed will not be
observed.

White light shining on a green bag, what colour would it appear?

The bag would appear green. White light contains blue, red and green colours. Green light is
reflected by the surface of the bag into our eyes, red and blue light are absorbed and not observed.
Hence the bag appears green.
White light shining on a yellow bag, what colour would it appear?

The bag would appear yellow. White light contains blue, red and green colours. Red and green
colours are reflected of the surface of the bag into our eyes. These colours combine to form yellow
colour. Blue colour is absorbed by the bag hence the bag appears yellow.

Blue light shining on green bag, what colour would it appear?

The blue light only contains the blue colour. When the blue light is shining onto the green bag, the
blue colour from the light source is absorbed and no colour is reflected into our eyes. Hence the bag
would appear black.

Blue light shining on cyan bag, what colour would it appear?

The blue light only contains the blue colour. The cyan bag is made of green and blue colours and
they will reflect green and blue colours. When the blue light is shining onto the cyan bag, the blue
colour is reflected of the surface into our eyes so the bag would appear blue.

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