Light Unit

Light Unit Goals

1) What is light?

• Be able to describe strengths and weaknesses of the two models of light.
• Be able to give effective examples showing the strengths of each model.

2) How light behaves

• Colors.

1. What are primary, secondary and complementary colors.
2. How are colors produced by dispersion, addition and subtraction of light.

• Reflection

1. What is the law of reflection.
2. Be able to locate images and make ray diagrams for reflection from flat mirrors.

• Refraction

1. What is it?
2. What is Snell’s Law
3.  How did we determine a law for refraction?
4. Be able to solve problems and draw ray diagrams, including for complete internal reflection.

• Lenses

1. Be able to draw ray diagrams for converging and diverging lenses.
2. Identify images as real or virtual.

Sections in book: most of chapters 16-19

Important Dates:

Homework Sets Due:  3/12, 3/16, 4/13

Refraction Lab due 3/17

 Particle Model Lab due 3/24
Test 4/15-4/17