1. Visible light waves

2. How do light waves behave when they strike an object?
Visible light waves
How do light waves behave when they strike an object?

3. Light waves vocabulary
Absorbed:

4. Light waves vocabulary
Absorbed: Light is taken in and goes nowhere.

5. Light waves vocabulary
Absorbed: Light is taken in and goes nowhere.
Reflected:

6. Light waves vocabulary
Absorbed: Light is taken in and goes nowhere.
Reflected: Light is taken in and bounces off.

7. Light waves vocabulary
Absorbed: Light is taken in and goes nowhere.
Reflected: Light is taken in and bounces off.
Transmitted:

8. Light waves vocabulary
Absorbed: Light is taken in and goes nowhere.
Reflected: Light is taken in and bounces off.
Transmitted: Light is taken in and passes through.

9. Light waves vocabulary
Opaque:

10. Light waves vocabulary
Opaque: Light does not pass through. Light is either absorbed or reflected.

11. Light waves vocabulary
Opaque: Light does not pass through. Light is either absorbed or reflected.
Transparent:

12. Light waves vocabulary
Opaque: Light does not pass through. Light is either absorbed or reflected.
Transparent: Light passes straight through an object.

13. Light waves vocabulary
Opaque: Light does not pass through. Light is either absorbed or reflected.
Transparent: Light passes straight through an object.
Translucent:

14. Light waves vocabulary
Opaque: Light does not pass through. Light is either absorbed or reflected.
Transparent: Light passes straight through an object.
Translucent: Light passes through an object but objects on other side are blurred / jumbled.

15. Black Paper
                                          

16. Black Paper
The paper is considered opaque.
                                          
Light was absorbed.

17. Mirror
                          
                                          

18. The mirror is opaque.
The light is reflected.
Mirror
                          
                                          

19. Window
                         
                          
                                          

20. The window is transparent.
The light is transmitted.
Window
                         
                          
                          
                                          

21. Wax-paper
                         
                          
                                          

22. Wax-paper The wax-paper is translucent.
The light is transmitted but “jumbled”.
                                  
                          
                         
                          
                                          

23. Reflection vs. Refraction

24. Reflection vs. Refraction
Light bouncing off of a surface.

25. Reflection vs. Refraction
Light bouncing off of a surface.
Light bends because it changes speeds as it changes mediums.

26. Reflection vs. Refraction
Light bouncing off of a surface.
Light bends because it changes speeds as it changes mediums.

27. Reflection vs. Refraction
Light bouncing off of a surface.
Angle of incidence = Angle of reflection
Light bends because it changes speeds as it changes mediums.

28. Reflection vs. Refraction
Light bouncing off of a surface.
Angle of incidence = Angle of reflection
Light bends because it changes speeds as it changes mediums.