LearningTarget:
Understand
the characteristics of light
Vocabulary
• Wave trough
• diffraction
• velocity
Agenda
1.Reminder to work on logs while the weather is
good
2.Library 12:30
3.Light Lab
4. Worksheets on wave and light
5.Early Astronomy reports are due next week on
October 17
You will be going to 12 stations, at each
station there will be a mini-lab. Follow
the instructions at the lab and in your
notebook record the following. You do
not have to do the labs in order:
1. The number of the lab
2. Describe what you observed
3. Answer any questions from the labs
sheet
4. Describe the concept learned from
what you observed—especially
describe what characteristic of light
are you seeing.
5. Apply the concept to what this
means to everyday used or how this
characteristic of light is useful.
1. Which has greater
wavelength, infrared or
ultraviolet?
2. Which has greater
frequency, infrared or
ultraviolet?
3. Which has greater
energy, infrared or
ultraviolet?
4. Whose law tells us that
the wavelength of an
object’s radiation is
inversely proportional to
it’s temperature
5. __________=frequency
x wavelength
Answers:
1. Infrared
2. ultraviolet
3. Ultraviolet
4. Wien
5. Velocity or speed