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1
Q

Electromagnetism doesn’t ??

A

Need a medium to travel through bc electric wave pushes the magnetic wave and magnetic wave pushes the electric one

2
Q

Speed of light

A

186,000 miles per second

3
Q

When you see sun light it’s actually an imagine from

A

81/2 minutes ago

4
Q

Closest star is

A

2 light years away

5
Q

Explain how the moons gravity pulls the ocean

A

It pulls ocean on both sides of the earth causing the ocean to bulge causing 2 high tides and 2 low tides

6
Q

E=mc2

A

Energy = mass speed of light

7
Q

Energy and mass are

A

Proportional

8
Q

White light is

All colors are (how did Newton show this)

A

All the colors together

Pieces of white light and he used a prism and shone white light through it

9
Q

refraction

A

Bending of light

10
Q

Lens

A

Piece of glass that either magnifies an object or makes it smaller

11
Q

Explain mirage

A

Say there’s a car on the road and the sun is shining down, the hot air is rising to the cool air and the sun light bending between the warm and cool air causes a mirage

12
Q

Double rainbows

What do you need to see a rainbow

A

Are opposites
Red-purple purple- red
Sun behind you and storm Infront of you

13
Q

Polirazarion

A

Axis of rotation of light is random

It refeacts 1/2 the light so they all have the same axis

14
Q

2 polarizes in opposition

A

Block out the light

15
Q

Radio waves
Length
Commonly used for

A

Length of soccer field
Radio (am=amplitude modulation & fm=frequency modulation)
Tv
Cellphones

16
Q

Microwaves
Shorter than
Used for

A

Shorter than radio waves
Microwaves
GPS (global positioning system)
Radar ( radio detection and ranging)

17
Q

Danger or pacemakers and microwaves

A

Microwaves can leak and cause pacemakers to stop working and cause heart attacks

18
Q

Infared

A

Heat
Just below Red visable light
You can’t see it

19
Q

Ultraviolet light

A

UVA - non ionizing visible light and harmless
UVB - ionizing sunburn
UVC - ionizing X-rays, blocked by our ozone in our atmosphere

20
Q

Time dialation

A

Time is stretched when objects approach speed of light
Say Me.Moore was in a truck then speed would equal distance divided by time but an observer who is far away speed = DISTANCE divided by TIME since the distance is bigger the time has to be bigger to and now time is stretched and the object pictures in slow-motion

21
Q

Light is caused by

A

Electrons orbiting and giving off quanta

22
Q

If Courtney travels into space/tike travel example

A

If Courtney travels into space at half the speed of light and is gone for two 1/2 years. She was actually only gone for two years that I was waiting still for 2 1/2 but the time was different up in space

23
Q

Lorenz contraction

A

When I basketball is moving it looks smaller and kind of distorted and if a basketball is moving at the speed of light it would look like a stick but it never loses its shape it just appears different

24
Q

How is mass different when something is moving at the speed of light

A

Yes it becomes infinite flight and the mass increases but an object can never quite reach a speed of light because if I did the mass would equal the mass of the universe

25
Q

Gravity is proportional to

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Mass

26
Q

Gravity is the distortion of

A

The time space continuum caused by the fact that there’s so much mass

27
Q

Maxwell and Einstein say light is a light wave and is now called

A

Electromagnetic radiation