Light waves
- Created by: Ryan Bisson
- Created on: 06-12-14 12:59
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- Light waves
- Always put a normal on a ray diagram
- They travel in transverse waves
- Can travel through a vaccum
- When white light travels through a prism it makes a spectrum.
- Can be reflected, refracted and dispersed
- Light always travels in straight lines
- light waves don't need a substance to travel through so can travel through transparent and translucent objects
- Light can travel up to 300,000,000 m/s in a vaccum
- Light waves change speed when travelling through something more dense than its come from
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