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Physics quiz for grade 11: Optics

This quiz helps revise “Optics” in Physics for grade 11. It has 25 questions in five categories: Mirrors, Refraction, Lenses & Systems, Wave Optics, Light Quanta. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.

  • For ages 16–17
  • 25 questions · 5 categories

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Buzzo quiz: Optics

A peek at the questions

The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.

Mirrors

  1. 100

    What reflector forms a virtual upright image the same size as the object?

  2. 200

    How do the object's and image's distances from a flat reflecting surface compare?

  3. 300

    Which spherical reflector, pictured…

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  4. 400

    Parallel rays leave a…

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  5. 500

    A spherical mirror's focal…

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Refraction

  1. 100

    Which way does a ray bend when it enters glass from air at a nonzero angle?

  2. 200

    What is the dimensionless ratio of light's speed in vacuum to its speed in a medium called?

  3. 300

    Which law relates the…

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  4. 400

    What is the incidence…

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  5. 500

    What occurs when a…

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Lenses & Systems

  1. 100

    What transparent optical element, thicker at the center, brings parallel rays together in air?

  2. 200

    What quantity is the reciprocal of focal length measured in metres?

  3. 300

    What unit is commonly…

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  4. 400

    Which instrument increases the…

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  5. 500

    What is the colored…

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Wave Optics

  1. 100Picture for the question

    What is the splitting of white light into colors because refraction depends on wavelength called?

  2. 200Picture for the question

    What is the formation of stable bright and dark bands when waves with a fixed phase difference overlap?

  3. 300

    What is light bending…

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  4. 400

    What phenomenon reveals light's…

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  5. 500

    Which principle, named after…

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Light Quanta

  1. 100Picture for the question

    Which constant, named after the scientist pictured here, is the proportionality factor between a light quantum's energy and its frequency?

  2. 200

    What is a single quantum of electromagnetic radiation called?

  3. 300

    What is the emission…

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  4. 400

    What is the minimum…

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  5. 500

    Which named equation for…

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