Light SOL 5.3
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Light a combination of different wavelenghts | ROYGBIV |
| Longest and Shortest wavelengths | Red the longest, violet the shortest |
| Light travels in | Waves |
| Light from the sun to earth | 8 1/2 minutes, 93,000,000 miles |
| Lights path | straight rays |
| Reflected | bounces off |
| Refracted | bent |
| light absorbed as | heat |
| tranparent | light easily passes through, glass window |
| Translucent | stained glass, some light passes through |
| Opaque | light cannot pass through, black curtains |
| prisms | refract light, bent in different angles |
| rainbows | occur when light bounces off water particles like a prism |
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