Long Quiz 11

Long Quiz
1. What term refers to the bouncing off of light waves when they hit an obstacle?
a. diffraction b. reflection c. refraction d. transmission
2. How is the bending of light waves as they pass from one medium to another medium with different refractive indices
known?
a. diffraction b. reflection c. refraction d. transmission
3. A student placed a pencil in a glass of water as in the figure at the right. Why did the pencil appear to be
broken?
a. Light always travels in a straight line. b. Light makes the water evaporate into the air.
c. Light reflects the pencil on the water’s surface. d. Light bends when it passes through changing
medium like air and water.
4. In what ways can light’s behaviour be described?
a. Curve and linear motions b. Projectile motion
c. Waves and particles d. Waves and shadows
5. 8. What colour/s of pigment are seen when it is capable of absorbing ROGBIV light waves?
a. green b. reddish-green c. yellow d. yellow-orange
6. Rainbow is a natural phenomenon that occurs when there are sunlight and drizzles of rain. What interaction happens
to produce such a scenery?
a. Drizzles of water trap heat energy from light and convert it to rainbow.
b. The colours of sunlight are split by molecules of water and change it to heat energy.
c. Water droplets serve as the transparent material where light energy passes through.
d. Light waves pass through droplets of water which disperse light into the colours of the rainbow.
7. What phenomenon occurs when colors of a rainbow are seen when light passes through a glass prism?
a. Scattering of light b. Diffraction of light c. Dispersion of light d. Reflection of light
8. An example of dispersion of light is ____.
a. Sky looks bright orange in the evening b. Shadow
c. Rainbow d. Pool seems shallower
9. What principle is responsible for light spreading as it passes through a narrow slit?
a. Interference b. Scattering c. Diffraction d. Dispersion
10. What principle is responsible when we see yellow to red skies in the early morning or late afternoon?
a. Diffraction b. Dispersion c. Interference d. Scattering
For numbers 11 to 13, use the following choices:

a. Concave side c. True
b. Convex side d. False
11. A spoon is a double mirror

12. This side of the spoon gives you an inverted reflected image
13. Both sides of a spoon can give different image orientations
14. It is based on the application of Newton’s three laws of motion which assume that the concepts of distance, time,
and mass are absolute.
a. Electromagnetism b. Newtonian mechanics
c. Newtons’ law of universal gravitation d. Special Relativity
15. Which of the following is the speed of light?
a. 186,000 miles per second b. 186,000 miles per minute
c. 187,000 miles per second d. 187,000 miles per minute
16. This physicist developed the special theory of relativity
a. Albert Einstein b. Heinrich Hertz c. Isaac Newton d. James Clerk Maxwell
17. Which of the following displays the use of special relativity in everyday life?
a. Global Positioning System (GPS) b. Graphing Calculators
c. Microwave ovens d. Toasters
18. Consider the list of physical properties below. According to special relativity, which one(s) is/are dependent on the
observer speed?
a. Energy b. Length c. Time d. All of these
19. Which of the following is true according to the special relativity?
a. Physical laws are the same in frames of reference which accelerate.
b. Physical laws are the same in frames of reference which move at uniform velocity
c. Physical laws are the same in frames of reference which move in circles.
d. Physical laws are the same in frames of reference which move in ellipses.
20. It is a form of electromagnetic (EM) radiation that is observable to most human eyes.
a. Infrared
b. Ultraviolet
c. Visible light
d. X-rays
21. It is a physical happening with respect to an observer’s perspective.
a. An event
b. An observer
c. A reference
d. A constant velocity
22. This is a concept that states that events happening simultaneously for two different observers cannot happen.
a. Length contraction
b. Time dilation
c. Relativity of simultaneity
d. Mass-energy equivalence
23. Two observers, one from Earth, and another from a spaceship travelling at constant speed experience time
differently. What do you call this apparent time difference?
a. time dilation
b. time contraction
c. length dilation
d. length contraction
24. Two observers, one from Earth, and another from a spaceship is travelling at a constant speed to another cosmic
body outside our Solar System. The two observers have a different perception on how far the distance to the other
planet. What do you call this effect?
a. length dilation
b. length contraction
c. length expansion
d. length assimilation
25. Two observers, one on a plane and one on the ground. The observer on the ground noted that two lightning struck
two trees at the same time, but the observer on a plane noticed that the two lightning did
not struck at the same time. What do you call this effect?
a. relativity of simultaneity
b. length dilation
c. lime contraction
d. cosmic speed limit
26. Jimmy and Timmy are twins, and both have the same height. Jimmy
was sent to a space mission to circumnavigate the Solar system for 10
years, flying at a constant speed. After the mission, what difference
can be observed with the twins?
a. Jimmy will look younger
b. Timmy will look younger
c. Jimmy will be taller
d. Timmy will be taller

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