Light! Lasers Speed of Light & Wavelengths Color Mirrors Lenses Diffraction Refraction History Solar Power Reflection Search Information This site was created for ThinkQuest '99 by Karolina, Ryan, and Elizabeth with coach Mr. Holcomb.
Lasers Speed of Light & Wavelengths Color Mirrors Lenses Diffraction Refraction History Solar Power Reflection Search Information This site was created for ThinkQuest '99 by Karolina, Ryan, and Elizabeth with coach Mr. Holcomb.
This site was created for ThinkQuest '99 by Karolina, Ryan, and Elizabeth with coach Mr. Holcomb.
1. What were first used to calculate the speed of light? prisms moons of Jupiter reflecting mirrors
2. The first land-based estimate of the speed of light was made by Olaus Roemer Léon Foucault Armand Fizeau
3. Light travels at 186,282 miles per second 185,093 miles per second 136,646 miles per second
4. The amount of infrared light that an object emits depends on its temperature color atoms
5. Infrared wavelengths are fast medium slow
6. _____________ discovered ultraviolet light by dipping paper into silver nitrate. William Herschel Wilhelm Ritter Hans Christian Oersted
7. Maxwell proved that light itself must be a/an particle electromagnetic wave wavelegnth
8. Ultraviolet wavelengths are slow medium fast
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