At the Shooting Gallery, players use a laser gun to shoot mechanical fish in a pool of water.
At the Shooting Gallery, players use a laser gun to shoot mechanical fish in a pool of water.
Which of the following light path models correctly shows the path the light travels from the laser gun to the fish? Choose the best answer below.
Describe the path of the laser light ray as it travels from the laser gun through the air to the water to the fish, to support your answer in question 1. Be sure to include science reasoning in your answer.
Students go behind the scenes at the Light Show auditorium. The light show operator tells them, “I can use the Light Show Control Panel to create awesome lighting effects.”
The “Rainbow” control sends a narrow beam of white light through a clear glass prism, as shown in the model below. The output is a continuous band of colors, like a rainbow.
Use the model to help describe how the light output from the prism is different than the white light input. Make sure you include the concepts of color and wavelength in your answer.
The Filter Color Control selects a colored filter and places it in front of incoming white light, which is composed of six different wavelengths. A green light filter is placed between the white light input and the person on the other side of the filter.
An incomplete model is shown at right.
Choose the color(s) of every wavelength of light that will travel through the green light filter and be seen by the person on the other side of the filter.
Describe how the green filter works. Be sure to include wavelength and color in your answer.
When the students were on the Dance Stage, they were easily able to follow all of the dance moves.
Later, when the students were about a mile away from the Dance Stage, they could still see the lights flash and hear the music, but the music was no longer timed with the light flashes, which made it difficult to dance in time with the lights and music!
Which of the following describes why the sound was no longer timed with the light flashes when the students were a mile away from the light and sound source?
In the Fun House, there are all kinds of booths that feature tricks with lights. One of the favorites is “Light Detective”: trying to guess the color of a ball by shining different colored lights on it. The ball sits within a display case with a light control dial, that only allows one color of light to shine on the ball at a time. The table below shows the experimental results of shining different colored lights on the ball to determine its actual color.
When light shines on an object, which of the following statements best summarizes the interaction of light waves with the object? Choose one answer below.
Your team of students wants to go to one last theme park ride, but a thunderstorm happens! What part of the storm are you going to experience FIRST?
Explain how sound and light waves travel through the air during a thunderstorm. In your answer, be sure to explain which type of wave you see first and why.
