Waves Activity 2
(8) Describe how the observed
properties of light, sound, and water are related to amplitude, frequency,
wavelength, and speed of waves (e.g., color and brightness of light, pitch and
volume of sound, height of water waves, light waves are faster than sound
waves).
(8) Describe the behavior of
light waves when light interacts with transparent, translucent, and opaque
substances (e.g., blue objects appear blue in color because the object reflects
mostly blue light and absorbs the other colors of light, transparent objects
transmit most light through them, lenses refract light).
(8) Describe the changes in
speed and direction as a wave goes from one substance into another.
Questions/Summations:
1. Describe how the observed
properties (color and brightness) of light related to amplitude, frequency,
wavelength of the waves?
2. Describe how the observed
properties (pitch and volume) of sound related to amplitude, frequency,
wavelength, and speed of the waves?
3. Describe how the height of
water waves related to amplitude, frequency, wavelength, and speed of the
waves?
4) Describe the changes in
speed and direction as a wave goes from one substance into another.
5) Describe the behavior of
light waves when light interacts with transparent, translucent, and opaque
substances (e.g. think about the color of opaque objects, ////focus on all 3
types)
6. Describe what happens to
light waves when they interact with mirrors.
7. Describe what happens to
light waves when they interact with lenses.
Resources:
Textbook: All sections and the following websites:
Reflection,
Refraction, and Diffraction
http://www.can-do.com/uci/lessons99/light.html
Light, Reflection, and Refraction
Lenses,
Mirrors, and Prisms
Color
and the Spectrum
Optics
in Nature
Supplementary
Modules
