What Do You Know About Light?
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Light is one of the most important thing in life, we love it, we use it. How much do you know about light? Can you write an article on light? Come on take this quiz to test your knowledge
Questions and Answers
- 1.What is the major source of light on earth?
- A.
Moon
- B.
Sun
- C.
Rainbow
- D.
Fire
- 2.Which of the following is the process by which some species of animals generate their own light?
- A.
Bioluminescence
- B.
Biophoto
- C.
Biolight
- D.
Biolucemt
- 3.Which of the following is known as the study of light?
- A.
LIghtology
- B.
Rectilinear
- C.
Optics
- D.
None of he abpve
- 4.Which of the following is referred to as the bending of light rays when passing through a surface between one transparent material and another?
- A.
Echo
- B.
Diffraction
- C.
Reflection
- D.
Refraction
- 5.Which of the following consists of measurements of light power at all wavelengths?
- A.
Lightometry
- B.
Photometry
- C.
Radiometry
- D.
Photosyntolometry
- 6.Which of the following is defined as the measures of light with wavelength weighted with respect to a standardised model of human brightness perception?
- A.
Radiometry
- B.
Photometry
- C.
Lactometry
- D.
Luminometry
- 7.Who discovered the diffraction of light?
- A.
Isaac Newton
- B.
Galileo
- C.
Francesco Grimaldi
- D.
Thomas Edison
- 8.Who created a mathematical particle theory of polarization?
- A.
Isaac Newton
- B.
Étienne-Louis Malus
- C.
Jean Larmack
- D.
Thomas Edison
- 9.Who discovered the effect of light known as Faraday's radiation?
- A.
Thomas Edison
- B.
Michael Faraday
- C.
Williams Moore
- D.
Leuton Kill
- 10.When was Faraday's rotation discovered?
- A.
1860
- B.
1900
- C.
1845
- D.
1812
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