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I. LIGHT
70%

A. Introduction: Can You See in the Dark?      

1. How information reaches your eyes

2. How you see an object

3. The role of light in sight

B. Light and Shadow

1. How light leaves a bulb

2. Shadows

3. Shadows from multiple light sources

C. Light and Objects I:  Reflecting and Scattering

1. Seeing mirror reflections

2. How light reflects from a mirror

3. How light interacts with paper

4. How light interacts with rough objects

D. The Human Eye

1. Properties of the eye

2. How information about an object reaches the eye

3. How the eye focuses on an object

4. How the eye sees light from all over a large room

E. Light and Objects II: Refraction

1. How a lens works

2. Refraction through a transparent material

3. Properties of a lens

4. Adjustments of the eye to low-light situations

5. How eyeglasses work

F. Colored Light

1. Changing light with colored material

2. Overlapping colored materials

3. What does color addition suggest about color vision?

4. Producing multiple colors on televisions and printed pictures

G. The Light Spectrum

1. Prisms and "white" light

2. Refraction of different colors

3. Refraction and colored filters

H. Real Objects

1. Seeing colored objects with white light

2. Seeing colored light through color filters

3. Seeing colored objects with colored light

I.  Rainbows

1. Making artificial rainbows

2. Natural rainbows

J. The Blue Sky

1. Why the sky is blue

2. Color of the sky during the day and during the night

3. How the color of the sky reaches your eyes

 
II. WAVES
15%

A.Types of Waves

1. Mechanical waves

2. Wave formation

B. Speed of a Wave

1. Speed of a wave on a string

2. Speed as a function of tension

3. Speed as a function of linear density

C. Superposition of Waves

1. Constructive interference

2. Destructive interference

D. Standing Waves

1. Characteristics of a standing wave

2. Standing waves on a string

3. Standing waves in a column

 
III. SOUND
15%

A. The Wave Nature of Sound

1. Formation of a sound wave           

2. Speed of sound waves in various media

B. Sound Waves and Hearing

1. Frequency ranges for sound waves

2. Superposition of sound waves

3. The threshold of hearing

4. Hearing loss

5. Acoustics of rooms

C. The Doppler Effect

1. A sound source approaching an observer

2. Receding sources of sound with respect to an observer

 

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