Fourth year of secondary education
Optics
C.Palacios
J.L. San Emeterio
Optics
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Evaluation

Have you learnt everything, ...a lot, ...something? Do you understand the topic?

- Can you distinguish between when light behaves like a particle and when it behaves like a wave?    
- Do you know what reflection is and how a ray of light behaves when it hits a flat mirror and a convex one?
- Do you know the phenomenon of refraction and how a ray of light behaves when it passes through a converging lens and a diverging one?
- Do you understand the basics of a telescope and what you should look for if you went to buy one? 
- Do you know how a photoelectric cell works and what consequences can be drawn from the experiment that you have simulated? This interpretation explains what cannot be explained using the electromagnetic theory of light.      evaluation

Light as a wave
What type of wave is light?
Colour and luminous intensity
Reflection
What is reflection?
Concave mirrors
Convex mirrors
Refraction
What is refraction?
Refraction depending on colour
Converging lenses
Diverging lenses
An optical instrument: the telescope
How does it work?
What type should I buy?
Light as a particle
The photoelectric cell
What can we deduce from the way it works?
Evaluation