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Quiz including longitudinal and transverse waves, standing waves, diffraction, interference, refraction, polarisation and the photoelectric effect

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Physics- Waves

Question 1 of 31

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What do waves carry from one place to another?

Select one of the following:

  • Energy

  • Matter

  • Particles

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Question 2 of 31

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What is the wavelength of a wave?

Select one of the following:

  • The distance between periods

  • The distance between phases

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Question 3 of 31

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What is the frequency of a wave?

Select one of the following:

  • The number of waves passing a point

  • The time it takes for a wave to pass a point

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Question 4 of 31

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What is the amplitude of a wave?

Select one of the following:

  • The distance the wave travels

  • The maximum displacement of the wave

  • The minimum displacement of the wave

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Question 5 of 31

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The formula for frequency is 1/time period

Select one of the following:

  • True
  • False

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Question 6 of 31

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What is the wave equation?

Select one of the following:

  • Wavelength = Wave Speed x Frequency

  • Frequency = Wave Speed x Wavelength

  • Wave Speed = Frequency x Wavelength

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Question 7 of 31

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The direction of vibration for transverse waves is ( perpendicular, parallel ) to the direction of travel where as for longitudinal waves it is ( parallel, perpendicular ) to the direction travel

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Question 8 of 31

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The phase is

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Question 9 of 31

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The phase angle can also be written as fractions of wavelengths, degrees or radians;
360 degrees = ( 1, 1/2, 1/4, 3/4 ) wavelength = ( 2n, 1/2n, 3/2n, 1n ) radians
180 degrees = ( 1/4, 1, 1/2, 3/4 ) wavelength = ( 3/2n, 2n, 1n, 1/2n ) radians
90 degrees = ( 1, 3/4, 1/4, 1/2 ) wavelength = ( 1/2n, 2n, 3/2n, 1n ) radians
270 degrees = ( 1/2, 1, 3/4, 1/4 ) wavelengths = ( 3/2n, 1n, 2n, 1/2n ) radians

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Question 10 of 31

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How to standing waves form?
A wave is and ,

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Question 11 of 31

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A node is

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Question 12 of 31

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An antinode is

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Question 13 of 31

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What is the distance between the nodes for a standing waves?

Select one of the following:

  • 1 wavelength

  • 1/2 wwavelength

  • 2 wavelengths

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Question 14 of 31

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Diffraction is

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Question 15 of 31

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What does s diffraction pattern of laser light passing through a slit look like?

Select one of the following:

  • Lots of lines, decreasing in height

  • Dots that fade the further out you go

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Question 16 of 31

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What happens to the size and brightness of the spots if you use a smaller diffraction grating?

Select one of the following:

  • They get smaller and dimmer

  • They get larger and brighter

  • They get smaller and brighter

  • They larger and dimmer

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Question 17 of 31

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When the wave displacements add to make a larger displacement we call it ( constructive interference, destructive interference ). When they add and cancel out to make zero displacement we call it ( constructive interference, destructive interference ).

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Question 18 of 31

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The phase difference when 2 waves are exactly in step is and the path difference is wavelengths
When in antiphase the phase difference is and the path difference is

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Question 19 of 31

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Sources of waves are said to be coherent when they have , and

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Question 20 of 31

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Path difference is by 2 waves arriving

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Question 21 of 31

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What is the refractive index?

Select one of the following:

  • The amount of refraction caused by the material

  • The angle a wave is refracted by

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Question 22 of 31

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The formula for Snell's Law is

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Question 23 of 31

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The critical angle is exits , greater than this causes

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Question 24 of 31

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Polarisation is when occur

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Question 25 of 31

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The electrons are emitted instantaneously because has energy greater where as if it were a wave then to the work function so there would be

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Question 26 of 31

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The wave theory cannot explain the photoelectric effect in terms of frequency because , therefore there must be

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Question 27 of 31

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The work function is an electron needs in

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Question 28 of 31

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The equation for photon energy is;
Photon Energy =

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Question 29 of 31

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The equation for kinetic energy is;
KE =

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Question 30 of 31

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1eV =

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Question 31 of 31

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Planck's constant =

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