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1. What occurs when periodic impulses are applied to a system at a frequency equal to one of its natural frequencies of oscillation? Resonance 2. What refers to the change in frequency of a wave when there is relative motion between its source and an observer? Doppler effect 3. Ultra sound refers to sounds whose frequencies are above 20000Hz. 4. What occurs when the resulting composite wave has amplitude greater than that of either of the original waves? Constructive interference 5. What occurs when the resulting composite wave has amplitude less than that of either of the original waves? Destructive interference 6. How many decibels should a sound be to be barely audible? 0 7. The ratio of speed of sound of an object and the speed of sound is called the Mach number 8. The force of one charge exerts on another is directly proportional to the magnitudes of the charges and inversely proportional to the square of the distance between them. This statement is known as Coulombs law 9. The _____ of an electric field is the electric potential energy per unit volume associated with it. Energy density 10. What is the ratio between the charge on either plates of a capacitor and the potential difference between the plates? Capacitance 11. What refers to the measure of how effective a material is in reducing an electric field set up across a sample of it? Dielectric constant 12. The potential difference across a battery, a generator or other source of electric energy when it is not connected to any external circuit is called its Electromotive force 13. What is defined as the luminous flux per unit area? Illumination 14. What refers to the brightness of a light source? Luminous intensity Module 15

15. What is the approximate luminous intensity of a candle? 1 candle 16. What unit is defined in terms of the light emitted by a small pool of platinum at its melting point? Candela 17. What refers to the total amount of visible light given off by a light source? Luminous flux 18. What refers to the luminous flux emitted by a light source per watt of power input? Luminous efficiency 19. Light ray that passes at an angle from one medium to another is deflected at the surface between the two media. What is this phenomenon called? Refraction 20. Every point on the wavefront can be considered as a source of secondary wavelets that spread out in all directions with the wave speed of the medium. The wavefront at any time is the envelope of these wavelets. This statement is known as Huygens principle 21. What refers to the band of colors that emerges from the prism? Spectrum 22. What type of lens deviates parallel light outward as though it originated at a single virtual focal point? Divergent lens 23. Which one best describes the meniscus lens? it has one concave and one convex surface 24. What is the distance from a lens to its focal point called? Focal length 25. If the linear magnification of an optical system is less than one, it means that: - the image is smaller than the object 26. A camera usually uses what type of lens to form an image on a lightsensitive photographic film? convergent lens 27. One of the common defects of vision is _____ commonly known as nearsightedness. myopia 28. One of the common defects of vision is _____ commonly known as farsightedness. hyperopia 29. What is a defect of vision caused by the cornea having different curvatures in different planes? Astigmatism 30. What refers to an artificially made polarizing material that transmits light with only a single plane of polarization? Polaroid

31. In optical system, what refers to its ability to produce separate images of nearby objects? resolving power 32. The resolving power of an optical system is _____ the objective lens of the optical system? directly proportional 33. What refers to the ability of the waves to bend around the edges of obstacles in their paths? diffraction 34. What refers to a series of parallel slits that produces a spectrum through the interference of light that is diffracted? diffraction grating 35. The emission of electrons from a metal surface when light shines on it is called photoelectric effect 36. What are high frequency electromagnetic waves emitted when fast electrons impinge on matter? X-rays 37. What refers to the increase in the measured mass of an object when it is moving relative to an observer? relativity of mass 38. What device is used for producing a narrow, monochromatic, coherent beam of light? Laser 39. What consists of various wavelengths of light emitted by an excited substance? emission spectrum 40. What consists of various wavelengths of light absorbed by a substance when white light is passed through it? absorption spectrum 41. Every electron has a certain amount of angular momentum called its spin 42. What does laser stands for? light amplification by stimulated emission of radiation 43. A free falling body is acted upon by which of the following? air resistance and gravitational pull 44. If the forces acting on a falling body balance one another, the body continues to fall at a constant velocity. What is this constant velocity called? terminal velocity 45. Air exerts a force that is opposite to the cars motion. What is this force called? drag force 46. What instrument is used to measure blood pressure of human beings? sphygmomanometer Module 15

47. What do light, radiowaves, microwaves and X-rays have in common? these do not need a medium to travel in 48. Who predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves in 1965? Maxwell 49. What is the sound level of threshold of pain? 120 dB 50. What is the intensity of the threshold of hearing in W/m2? 10-12 51. What refers to a measure of the energy of sound? intensity 52. What refers to the sensation in the ear which depends on the energy in the sound wave? loudness 53. How can loudness of sound be increased? all of the choices 54. Which of the following is dependent upon the frequency of sound vibrations? pitch 55. The Doppler Effect is named after which scientist? Christian Johann Doppler 56. When a person tells you that the pitch of your voice is high, he is referring to the number of sound waves you are sending out per second 57. At what intensity level will a noise be considered pollutant in the environment? above 120 dB 58. The velocity of sound in air increases by how many m/s for every 10C increase in temperature? 0.6 59. Why is sound wave travel faster bin water than in air? Bec. Water has greater bulk modulus than air 60. What will happen to the wavelength if the velocity and frequency of a wave are both reduced to one half? it will remain the same 61. Which of the ff. statements is true? a high frequency sound has high pitch 62. What part of the human ear where sound energy is converted into electrical energy? cochlea 63. In which medium do sound waves travel the fastest? solids 64. Who provide evidence that light and electromagnetic waves have the same nature and that they travel at the same speed and exhibit the same properties such as refraction, reflection and interference? Hertz 65. Which of the ff. has the smallest wavelength band? indigo 2

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What color has the longest wavelength? red What color has the shortest wavelength? violet What is the wavelength band of orange? 600nm 650nm When the white light is passed through a prism, the different lights are bent to varying degrees and are dispersed into different colors. Which of these colors bends the most? violet The formation of rainbow in the sky is due to refraction What property of light wave is determined by its wavelength? color What is diffraction? the scattering of white light behind an obstruction What is dispersion? the separation of white light into its component colors What are primary colors? colors which when combined produce white light What device used to measure atmospheric pressure and is consists of a glass tube sealed at one end and filled with mercury and a slide with a vernier scale? mercury barometer A wave that needs a material medium through which it can travel as it transfers energy? mechanical wave What refers to the property of some media to transmit light wave in a diffused matter to make objects behind them undistinguishable? translucent What refers to the part of the shadow from which all light is excluded? umbra The range of projectile is directly proportional to the square of velocity The radius vector drawn from the sun to the planet sweeps out equal areas in equal interval of time. This statement is known as Keplers second law of planetary motion The planets revolve around the earth in elliptical orbits, the sun being one of the foci of the ellipse. This statement is known as Keplers first law of planetary motion The ratio of the square of the time required by a planet to complete one revolution about the sun to the cube of the distance of the

planet to the sun is the same for all planets in the solar system. This is known as Keplers third law of planetary motion 83. Keplers second law of motion is based on which of the ff.? law of conservation of angular momentum 84. The velocity of projection of a body which takes it beyond the earths gravitational attraction is called _____ of the body. escape velocity 85. The escape velocity is the same for all bodies 86. What is the value of the escape velocity on earth in km/s? 11.2 87. The speed of sound is _____ the density of gas? inversely proportional to 88. The velocity of sound in air is equal to the square root of the ratio of the pressure of the gas to the density of the medium. This is equation is known as Newtons formula 89. Indicate the false statement speed of sound in dry air is more than the speed of sound in moist air 90. The _____ of the source is the luminous flux per area of the source. luminous emittance 91. Brightness is the same as luminous emittance 92. What is a monochromatic light? light with only one color and one wavelength 93. What is a three-dimensional image of an object illuminated by a broad band of coherent light? hologram 94. In opaque material the refracted energy is absorbed within a very thin layer and converted to heat 95. In translucent material light is partially absorbed 96. In transparent material light is able to pass through 97. The ratio of the speeds of light in two different media is known as relative index of refraction 98. What type of waves is produced in the stem when a tuning fork vibrates? longitudinal wave 99. The velocity of sound is _____ the pressure of gas. independent of 100. The moment of inertia of an object is dependent on which of the following? all of the above

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