Final Exam Review 2.

Waves Name
Multiple choice

1. What is the wavelength of the wave shown in to

diagram below?

A) 1 m B) 2 m C) 3 m D) 0.5 m
2. The diagram below shows two points, A and B, on a
wave train.

How many wavelengths separate point A and point B?

A) 1.0 B) 1.5 C) 3.0 D) 0.75
3. Base your answer to the following question on
the diagram below which represents a wave traveling
to the right along an elastic medium.

What is the amplitude of the wave?

A) 1.0 m B) 0.75 m
C) 0.50 m D) 0.25 m
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Base your answers to questions 4 and 5 on the diagram below, which represents a transverse wave.

4. A wavelength is the distance between points

A) A and C B) A and E C) B and H D) I and D
5. The amplitude of the wave is the distance between points
A) A and C B) A and E C) B and H D) I and D

6. The amplitude of the wave shown below represented 8. The diagram below shows a transverse pulse moving
by the distance between points to the right in a string.

Which diagram best represents the motion of point P

as the pulse passes point P?
A) B)
A) A and B B) A and C
C) A and D D) E and D C) D)
7. Base your answer to the following question on the
diagram below which represents a segment of a
periodic wave traveling to the right in a steel spring. 9. When a transverse wave is moving through a medium,
what is the action of the particles of the medium?
A) They travel through the medium with the wave.
B) They vibrate in a direction parallel to the
direction in which the wave is moving.
C) They vibrate in a direction perpendicular to
the direction in which the wave is moving.
D) They remain at rest.
10. Which is an example of a longitudinal wave?

What type of wave is illustrated by the diagram? A) gamma ray B) X-ray

C) sound wave D) water wave
A) torsional B) longitudinal
C) elliptical D) transverse 11. As a longitudinal wave travels horizontally, the
particles of the medium vibrate
A) in a circle B) in a spiral
C) vertically D) horizontally
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12. Base your answer to the following question on the accompanying diagram which represents a sound
wave and its corresponding pattern on an oscilloscope screen.

What type of wave is the sound wave?

A) elliptical B) transverse C) torsional D) longitudinal
13. What is the frequency of a wave if its period is 0.25 18. Note that the question below has only three
second? choices.
If the amplitude of a wave is increased, the
A) 1.0 Hz B) 0.25 Hz
frequency of the wave will
C) 12 Hz D) 4.0 Hz
A) decrease B) increase
14. What is the period of a periodic wave that has a
C) remain the same
frequency of 60. hertz?
19. The speed of a transverse wave in a string is 12
A) 1.7 × 10 –2 s B) 2.0 × 10 4 s
meters per second. If the frequency of the source
C) 3.0 × 10 –3 S D) 3.3 × 10 2 s producing this wave is 3.0 hertz, what is its
15. What is the period of a wave whose frequency is 256 wavelength?
cycles per second?
A) 0.25 m B) 2.0 m
A) 1 s B) 1/256 s C) 36 m D) 4.0 m
C) 256 s D) 512 s 20. The rate at which a wave travels from one point to
16. An observer counts 4 complete water waves passing another determines the wave's
by the end of a dock every 10. seconds. What is the
A) frequency B) period
frequency of the waves?
C) amplitude D) velocity
A) 0.40 Hz B) 2.5 Hz
C) 40. Hz D) 4.0 Hz
17. A duck floating on a lake oscillates up and down 5.0
times during a 10.-second interval as a periodic
wave passes by. What is the frequency of the duck's
oscillations?
A) 0.10 Hz B) 0.50 Hz
C) 2.0 Hz D) 50. Hz
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21. The diagram below represents a wave. 24. The diagram below shows a vibrating source moving
at a constant speed producing the wave pattern
shown.

What is the speed of the wave if its frequency is 8.0

hertz?
A) 48 m/s B) 16 m/s If the source were to accelerate, the wavelength
C) 3.2 m/s D) 1.6 m/s immediately in front of the source would
22. The driver of a car blows the horn as the car A) increase, only
approaches a crosswalk. Compared to the actual B) decrease, only
pitch of the horn, the pitch observed by a pedestrian C) increase and then decrease
in the crosswalk is D) remain the same
A) lower B) higher 25. Waves transfer energy between two points with no
C) the same transfer of
23. An observer detects an apparent change in the A) work B) momentum
frequency of sound waves produced by an airplane C) mass D) force
passing overhead. This phenomenon illustrates
26. For a given frequency of a longitudinal wave, which
A) The Doppler effect characteristic is directly related to the energy of the
B) the refraction of sound waves wave?
C) wave amplitude increase A) amplitude B) speed of wave
D) wave intensity increase C) wavelength D) period
27. Wave motion in a medium transfers
A) energy, only
B) mass, only
C) both mass and energy
D) neither mass nor energy
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28. The diagram below represents two pulses

approaching each other from opposite directions in
the same medium.

Which diagram best represents the medium after the

pulses have passed through each other?
A)

B)

C)

D)

29. Which diagram below does not represent a periodic wave?

A) B)

C) D)

30. A single vibratory disturbance that moves from point 31. The diagram below shows a wave phenomenon.
to point in a medium is called a
A) period B) periodic wave
C) wavelength D) pulse

The pattern of waves shown behind the barriers is

the result of
A) reflection B) diffraction
C) refraction D) absorption
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32. A student listens to music from a speaker in an 35. What is the frequency of a light wave with a
adjoining room, as represented in the diagram wavelength of 6.0 × 10 –7 meter traveling through
below. space?
A) 2.0 × 10 –15 Hz B) 5.0 × 10 1 Hz
C) 1.8 × 10 14 Hz D) 5.0 × 10 14 Hz
36. Which formula represents a constant for light waves
of different frequencies in a vacuum?
A) B) C) D)

37. In a vacuum, radio waves and visible light waves

must have the same
A) amplitude B) frequency
C) speed D) wavelength
38. Radio waves and gamma rays traveling in space
She notices that she does not have to be directly in have the same
front of the doorway to hear the music. This A) frequency B) wavelength
spreading of sound waves beyond the doorway is an C) period D) speed
example of
39. As the wavelength of a visible light beam is
A) the Doppler effect B) resonance increased from violet to red, the speed of the light in
C) refraction D) diffraction a vacuum
33. The diagram illustrates the wave pattern formed A) decreases B) increases
when a stone is dropped into still water. C) remains the same
40. Which phenomenon is best explained by the wave
theory?
A) reflection
B) illumination
C) interference
D) the photoelectric effect
What does the collection of points on the outermost 41. Which phenomenon provides evidence that light has
circle represent? a wave nature?
A) a wave front B) a wavelength A) emission of light from an energy-level
C) the frequency D) the period transition in a hydrogen atom
B) diffraction of light passing through a narrow
34. A light wave has a frequency of cycles per opening
second and a wavelength of meter. What
C) absorption of light by a black sheet of paper
is the approximate speed of the wave?
D) reflection of light from a mirror
A) B)
C) D)
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42. Only the wave theory of light offers an explanation 49. Electromagnetic radiation having a wavelength of
for the ability of light to exhibit 1.3 × 10–7 meter would be classified as
A) interference A) infrared B) orange
B) reflection C) blue D) ultraviolet
C) photoelectric emission 50. To which part of the electromagnetic spectrum will a
D) intensity of radiation photon belong if its wavelength in a vacuum is
43. Which phenomenon can not be exhibited by meters?
longitudinal waves? A) X-ray B) ultraviolet
A) reflection B) refraction C) visible light D) infrared
C) diffraction D) polarization 51. When electrical charges are accelerated in a vacuum,
44. The diagram below shows sunglasses being used to they may generate
eliminate glare. A) sound waves B) water waves
C) light waves D) torsional waves
52. Which is a source of electromagnetic radiation?
A) a neutron at constant velocity
B) a neutron accelerating
C) a proton at constant velocity
Which phenomenon of light is represented in the
D) a proton accelerating
diagram?
53. Electromagnetic radiation may be generated by
A) dispersion B) diffraction
C) internal reflection D) polarization A) neutrons moving with constant velocity
B) electrons moving with constant velocity
45. Which is a characteristic of light produced by a
monochromatic light source? C) accelerating neutrons
D) accelerating electrons
A) It can be dispersed by a prism.
54. As a lamp is moved twice as far away from a book,
B) It is a longitudinal wave.
the amount of illumination on the book
C) Its frequency is constantly changing.
D) It can be polarized. A) is reduced to one half the original illumination
B) is twice as much as the original illumination
46. Sources that produce waves with a constant phase
relation are said to be C) remains the same
D) is reduced to one fourth the original
A) polarized B) diffused illumination
C) refracted D) coherent
55. As a lamp is moved closer to a surface, the
47. Only coherent wave sources produce waves that illumination on that surface from the lamp will
A) are the same in frequency A) decrease B) increase
B) have the same speed C) remain the same
C) have a constant phase relation
56. A book is held two feet from a lamp. The book is
D) are polarized in the same plane then moved so that it is one foot from the lamp. The
48. The color of visible light is determined by its illumination on the book will now be
A) frequency B) amplitude A) unchanged
C) intensity D) speed B) twice as much
C) one-half as much
D) four times as much
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57. Two wave sources operating in phase in the same

medium produce the circular wave patterns shown in
the diagram below. The solid lines represent wave
crests and the dashed lines represent wave troughs.

Which point is at a position of maximum destructive

interference?
A) A B) B C) C D) D
58. The diagram below represents two waves of equal
amplitude and frequency approaching point P as
they move through the same medium.

As the two waves pass through each other, the

medium at point P will
A) vibrate up and down
B) vibrate left and right
C) vibrate into and out of the page
D) remain stationary
59. Two pulses approach each other in the same medium. The diagram below represents the
displacements caused by each pulse.

Which diagram best represents the resultant displacement of the medium as the pulses pass through
each other?
A) B)

C) D)
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60. Which two points on the wave shown in the diagram 63. Maximum constructive interference will occur at
below are in phase with each other? points where the phase difference between two
waves is
A) 0° B) 90° C) 180° D) 270°
64. The diagram below represents a wave moving
toward the right side of this page.

A) A and B B) A and E Which wave shown below could produce a standing

C) B and C D) B and D wave with the original wave?
61. The diagram below represents a periodic wave. A) B)

C) D)

65. In order for standing waves to form in a medium,

two waves must
Which point on the wave is 90° out of phase with
point P? A) have the same frequency
A) A B) B C) C D) D B) have different amplitudes
C) have different wavelengths
62. A car radio is tuned to the frequency being emitted
D) travel in the same direction
from two transmitting towers. As the car moves at
constant speed past the towers, as shown in the 66. Two waves traveling in the same medium and
diagram below, the sound from the radio repeatedly having the same wavelength ( ) interfere to create a
fades in and out. standing wave. What is the distance between two
consecutive nodes on this standing wave?
A) B) C) D)
67. The diagram below shows a standing wave.

Point A on the standing wave is

This phenomenon can best be explained by A) a node resulting from constructive interference
A) refraction B) interference B) a node resulting from destructive
C) reflection D) resonance interference
C) an antinode resulting from constructive
interference
D) an antinode resulting from destructive
interference
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68. The diagram below represents a light ray reflecting 72. The diagram below represents a light ray being
from a plane mirror. reflected from a plane mirror. The angle between the
incident ray and the reflected ray is 70.

The angle of reflection for the light ray is

A) 25° B) 35° C) 50.° D) 65°
What is the angle of incidence for this ray?
69. When a light ray is reflected from a surface,
compared to the angle of incidence, the angle of A) 20. B) 35 C) 55 D) 70.
reflection is 73. The diagram below represents a light ray being
A) less B) greater reflected from a plane mirror. From the data given in
the diagram, what is the angle of reflection?
C) the same
70. The diagram below shows a light ray striking a plane
mirror.

A) 10 B) 40 C) 50 D) 100
74. The diagram below represents a standing wave.

The number of nodes and antinodes shown in the

What is the angle of reflection? diagram is
A) 30 ° B) 60° C) 90° D) 120° A) 4 nodes and 5 antinodes
71. When a ray is incident upon a plane mirror as shown B) 5 nodes and 6 antinodes
in the diagram, what is the angle of reflection? C) 6 nodes and 5 antinodes
D) 6 nodes and 10 antinodes

A) 0° B) 30° C) 45° D) 90°

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75. Wave X travels eastward with frequency f and 80. While playing, two children create a standing wave
amplitude A. Wave Y, traveling in the same medium, in a rope, as shown in the diagram below. A third
interacts with wave X and produces a standing wave. child participates by jumping the rope.
Which statement about wave Y is correct?
A) Wave Y must have a frequency of f, an
amplitude of A, and be traveling eastward.
B) Wave Y must have a frequency of 2f, an
amplitude of 3A, and be traveling eastward.
C) Wave Y must have a frequency of 3f, an
amplitude of 2A, and be traveling westward.
D) Wave Y must have a frequency of f, an What is the wavelength of this standing wave?
amplitude of A, and be traveling westward. A) 2.15 m B) 4.30 m
76. How many nodes are represented in the standing C) 6.45 m D) 8.60 m
wave diagram below? 81. When the stretched string of the apparatus
represented below is made to vibrate, point P does
not move.

A) 1 B) 6 C) 3 D) 4 Point P is most probably at the location of

77. Standing waves in water are produced most often by A) a node
periodic water waves B) an antinode
A) being absorbed at the boundary with a new C) maximum amplitude
medium D) maximum pulse
B) refracting at a boundary with a new medium
C) diffracting around a barrier
D) reflecting from a barrier
78. Standing waves are produced by the interference of
two waves with the same
A) frequency and amplitude, but opposite
directions
B) frequency and direction, but different
amplitudes
C) amplitude and direction, but different
frequencies
D) frequency, amplitude, and direction
79. An opera singer's voice is able to break a thin crystal
glass if the singer's voice and the glass have the
same natural
A) frequency B) speed
C) amplitude D) wavelength
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82. The diagram below represents a standing wave in a string.

Maximum constructive interference occurs at the

A) antinodes A, C, and E B) nodes A, C, and E
C) antinodes B and D D) nodes B and D
83. Two waves traveling in the same medium interfere to 87. A light ray is incident upon a plane mirror. If the
produce a standing wave. What is the phase angle of incidence is increased, the angle of
difference between the two waves at a node? reflection will
A) 0° B) 90° C) 180° D) 360° A) decrease B) increase
84. A ray of monochromatic light traveling in air is C) remain the same
incident on a plane mirror at an angle of 30.°, as 88. In the diagram below, light ray AO is incident on a
shown in the diagram below. Lucite-air surface at point O.

Through which point will the reflected ray pass?

The angle of reflection for the light ray is A) 1 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
A) 15° B) 30.° C) 60.° D) 90.° 89. A light ray is incident upon a cylindrical reflecting
surface as shown in the diagram. The ray will most
85. A ray of light strikes a mirror at an angle of
likely be reflected toward letter
incidence of 60º. What is the angle of reflection?
A) 0º B) 30º C) 60º D) 90º
86. A sonar wave is reflected from the ocean floor. For
which angles of incidence do the wave’s angle of
reflection equal its angle of incidence?
A) angles less than 45°, only
B) an angle of 45°, only
C) angles greater than 45°, only
D) all angles of incidence
A) A B) B C) C D) D
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90. When a ray of light strikes a mirror perpendicular to 94. A ray is reflected from a surface as shown in the
its surface, the angle of reflection is diagram below. Which letter represents the angle of
incidence?
A) 0° B) 45° C) 60° D) 90°
91. The diagram below represents a view from above of
a tank of water in which parallel wave fronts are
traveling toward a barrier.

A) A B) B C) C D) D
Base your answers to questions 95 and 96 on the
information and diagram below and on your
knowledge of physics.

One end of a long spring is attached to a wall.

A student vibrates the other end of the spring
vertically, creating a wave that moves to the wall
and reflects back toward the student, resulting in
a standing wave in the spring, as a represented
Which arrow represents the direction of travel for below.
the wave fronts after being reflected from the
barrier?
A) A B) B C) C D) D
92. The diagram below represents a light ray striking the
boundary between air and glass.

95. What is the phase difference between the incident

wave and the reflected wave at point P?
A) 0° B) 90° C) 180° D) 270°
96. What is the total number of antinodes on the
standing wave in the diagram?
A) 6 B) 2 C) 3 D) 4
What would be the angle between this light ray and
its reflected ray?
A) 30.° B) 60.° C) 120.° D) 150.°
93. Parallel light rays are incident on the surface of a
plane mirror. Upon reflection from the mirror the
light rays will
A) converge B) diverge
C) be parallel D) be scattered
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97. The diagram below shows a ray of light being 101. When light rays from an object are incident upon
reflected from a plane mirror. Which letter indicates an opaque, rough-textured surface, no reflected
the angle of reflection? image of the object can be seen. This phenomenon
occurs because of
A) regular reflection
B) diffuse reflection
C) reflected angles not being equal to incident
angles
D) reflected angles not being equal to refracted
angles
A) A B) B C) C D) D 102. When a student looks into a plane mirror, she sees a
virtual image of herself. However, when she looks
98. What is the angle of incidence of the light ray shown into a sheet of paper, no such image forms. Which
below? light phenomenon occurs at the surface of the
paper?
A) regular reflection B) diffuse reflection
C) polarization D) resonance

A) 30° B) 60° C) 90° D) 150°

99. Which phenomenon of light is illustrated by the
diagram below?

A) regular reflection B) diffuse reflection

C) diffraction D) refraction
100. The diagram below shows parallel rays of light
incident on an irregular surface.

Which phenomenon of light is illustrated by the

diagram?
A) diffraction B) refraction
C) regular reflection D) diffuse reflection
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103. Which diagram best represents the reflection of 106. The behavior of the light incident upon this page
light from an irregular surface? best illustrates the phenomenon of
A) A) diffraction B) refraction
C) regular reflection D) diffuse reflection
107. Which will generally occur when a pulse reaches a
boundary between two different media?
A) The entire pulse will be reflected.
B) The entire pulse will be absorbed.
B) C) The entire pulse will be transmitted.
D) Part of the pulse will be transmitted and
part will be reflected.
108. When a pulse traveling in a medium strikes the
boundary of a different medium, the energy of the
pulse will be

C) A) completely absorbed by the boundary

B) entirely transmitted into the new medium
C) entirely reflected back into the original
medium
D) partly reflected back into the original
medium and partly transmitted or
absorbed into the new medium
D) 109. A light spring is attached to a heavier spring at one
end. A pulse traveling along the light spring is
incident on the boundary with the heavier spring.
At this boundary, the pulse will be
A) totally reflected
B) totally absorbed
104. Which of the diagrams representing light rays C) totally transmitted into the heavier spring
reflecting from a surface illustrates diffuse D) partially reflected and partially transmitted
reflections into the heavier spring
A) B)

C) D)

105. A beam of parallel rays of light is reflected from a

plane mirror. After reflection, the rays will be
A) converging B) diverging
C) parallel D) diffused
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110. The diagram below shows light rays in air about to

strike a glass window.

When the rays reach the boundary between the air

and the glass, the light is
A) totally refracted
B) totally reflected
C) partially reflected and partially diffracted
D) partially reflected and partially refracted
111. Base your answer to the following question on
the diagram below which represents a ray of monochromatic green light incident upon the surface of
a glass prism.

After the ray leaves the prism, it will most likely pass through point
A) A B) B C) C D) D
112. A pencil appears to be bent at a point where it
enters the water in a beaker. This phenomenon is
called
A) refraction B) reflection
C) dispersion D) rarefaction
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113. In the diagram below, a ray of light enters a glass 118. As a wave enters a medium of higher refractive
block from air. Which path best indicates the index, its wavelength
direction of the refracted light ray?
A) decreases B) increases
C) remains the same
119. As a periodic wave travels from one medium to
another, which pair of the wave's characteristics do
not change?
A) period and frequency
B) period and amplitude
C) frequency and velocity
D) amplitude and wavelength
120. A beam of monochromatic red light passes
obliquely from air into water. Which characteristic
of the light does not change?
A) A B) B C) C D) D
A) direction B) velocity
114. Light is focused by a lens due to the phenomenon
C) frequency D) wavelength
of
121. The speed of light in water is closest to the speed of
A) diffraction B) magnification light in
C) refraction D) reflection
A) a vacuum
115. Which ray diagram best represents the phenomenon
B) lucite
of refraction?
C) carbon tetrachloride
A) B) D) alcohol
122. As a wave travels into a different medium with a
change in direction, there will be a change in the
wave's
A) speed B) frequency
C) D) C) period D) phase
123. If the critical angle of glass is 45°, the light rays,
shown in the diagram will be

116. The change in the direction of a wave when it

passes obliquely from one medium to another is
called
A) diffraction B) interference
C) refraction D) superposition
A) reflected B) refracted
117. As monochromatic light goes from Lucite into C) dispersed D) diffracted
alcohol, its wavelength
A) decreases B) increases
C) remains the same
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Base your answers to questions 124 through 126 on 128. In the diagram below, a monochromatic light ray is
the diagram below. The diagram shows two light rays passing from medium A into medium B. The angle
originating from source S in medium y. The dashed of incidence q is varied by moving the light source
line represents a normal to each surface. S.

When angle becomes the critical angle, the angle

of refraction will be
A) 0°
B) q
C) greater than q, but less than 90°
124. A reflected light ray is ray D) 90°
A) A B) B C) C D) E 129. A ray of monochromatic light is traveling in flint
125. Which two angles must be equal? glass. The ray strikes the flint glass-air interface at
an angle of incidence greater than the critical angle
A) 1 and 2 B) 2 and 3 for flint glass. Which diagram best represents the
C) 3 and 4 D) 1 and 4 path of this light ray?
126. Light originating from source S could produce total A) B)
internal reflection at
A) surface yz, only
B) surface xy, only
C) neither surface xy nor yz
C) D)
127. If a ray of light in glass is incident upon an air
surface at an angle greater than the critical angle,
the ray will
A) reflect, only 130. Total internal reflection can occur as light waves
B) refract, only pass from
C) partly refract and partly reflect A) water to air
D) partly refract and partly diffract B) Lucite to crown glass
C) alcohol to glycerol
D) air to crown glass
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131. As shown in the diagram below, a beam of light can 137. Which optical medium would have the smallest
pass through the length of a curved glass fiber. critical angle ( c) in the situation shown in the
diagram?

This phenomenon is possible due to the effect of

A) dispersion
B) internal reflection
C) polarization
D) diffraction A) Lucite B) water
C) Canada balsam D) diamond
132. A ray of light traveling through water strikes a
water-air surface with an angle of incidence equal 138. The critical angle for a monochromatic light ray
to the critical angle. What will be the angle of traveling from a dispersive material into air is 45º.
refraction? What is the index of refraction for the material?
A) 180º B) 90º C) 45º D) 30º A) 2.41 B) 1.71
C) 1.41 D) 0.707
133. A light ray traveling through glass strikes a
glass-air surface. As the angle of incidence 139. Base your answer to the following question on the
increases, the critical angle diagram below, which represents a light ray
traveling from air to Lucite to medium Y and back
A) decreases
into air.
B) increases
C) remains the same
134. Four optical media have indices of refraction of
1.40, 1.50, 1.60, and 1.70, respectively. The
medium that has the largest critical angle is the one
whose index of refraction is
A) 1.40 B) 1.50 C) 1.60 D) 1.70
135. The critical angle for light traveling from a given
medium to air is 38º. If light is traveling from
another medium with a greater index of refraction
to air, the critical angle is
A) less than 38º B) greater than 38º
C) equal to 38º
136. If the critical angle for a substance is 44º, the index
Light travels slowest in
of refraction of the substance is equal to
A) air, only
A) 1.0 B) 0.69
B) Lucite, only
C) 1.4 D) 0.023
C) medium Y, only
D) air, Lucite, and medium Y
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140. In a certain material, a beam of monochromatic Base your answers to questions 146 and 147 on
light (f = 5.09 × 1014 hertz) has a speed of 2.25 × 10 the diagram below which represents a ray of light
8 meters per second. The material could be moving from air through substance B, through
substance C, and back into air. The surfaces of
A) crown glass B) flint glass
substances B and C are parallel.
C) glycerol D) water
141. When a wave goes from a medium of higher
refractive index to one of lower refractive index, its
speed
A) decreases B) increases
C) remains the same
142. A beam of monochromatic light travels through
flint glass, crown glass, Lucite, and water. The
speed of the light beam is slowest in
A) flint glass B) crown glass
C) Lucite D) water
143. The speed of light in a piece of plastic is 2.00 × 108 146. At the boundary between substance C and air what
meters per second. What is the absolute index of is the sine of the critical angle?
refraction of this plastic? A) 0.866 B) 0.707
A) 1.00 B) 0.670 C) 0.667 D) 0.500
C) 1.33 D) 1.50 147. Compared to the wavelength of the light in air, the
144. A beam of light crosses a boundary between two wavelength of the light in substance C is
different media. Refraction can occur if A) shorter B) longer
A) the angle of incidence is 0º C) the same
B) there is no change in the speed of the wave
C) the media have different indices of 148. A ray of monochromatic light (Wavelength = 5.9 x
refraction 10 –7 meter) traveling in air is incident on an
D) all of the light is reflected interface with a liquid at an angle of 45, as shown
in the diagram below.
145. When a wave enters a medium of higher refractive
index, its velocity
A) decreases B) increases
C) remains the same

If the absolute index of refraction of the liquid is

1.4, the angle of refraction for the light ray is
closest to
A) 10. B) 20. C) 30. D) 40.
149. The direction of a light ray in air will change most
when the light ray obliquely strikes and then enters
A) lucite B) glycerol
C) alcohol D) water
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Base your answers to questions 151 and 152 on the

diagrams below, which show the paths of beams of
monochromatic light as they reach the boundary
between two media. N is the normal to the surface.
[the index of refraction for benzene is 1.50]

150. A ray of light ( = 5.9 × 10 – 7 meter) traveling in

crown glass is incident on a diamond interface at an
angle of 30.°, as shown in the diagram above.
The angle of refraction for the light ray is closest to
A) 12° B) 18° C) 30° D) 53°

151. The direction of the beam of light will not change

in diagram
A) A B) B C) C D) D
152. What is the sine of the angle of refraction for the
beam of light in diagram D?
A) 1.00 B) 0.707
C) 0.47 D) 0.30
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153. The diagram below shows a ray of light passing 157. In the diagram below, a ray of light enters a
from medium X into air. transparent medium from air. If angle X is 45° and
angle Y is 30°, what is the absolute index of
refraction of the medium?

What is the absolute index of refraction of medium

X?
A) 0.500 B) 2.00
C) 1.73 D) 0.577
A) 0.667 B) 0.707
154. A ray of monochromatic light (f = 5.09 × 10 14 C) 1.41 D) 1.50
hertz) in air is incident at an angle of 30.° on a
158. As yellow light ( f = 5.09 × 10 14 Hz) travels from
boundary with corn oil. What is the angle of
zircon into diamond, the speed of the light
refraction, to the nearest degree, for this light ray in
the corn oil? A) decreases B) increases
A) 6° B) 20.° C) 30.° D) 47° C) remains the same

155. A light ray passes from air into glass as shown in 159. The apparent speed of light is least in
the diagram below. A) Canada balsam B) lucite
C) diamond D) alcohol
160. The speed of a ray of light traveling through a
substance having an absolute index of refraction of
1.1 is
A) 1.1 × 10 8 m/s B) 2.7 × 10 8 m/s
C) 3.0 × 10 8 m/s D) 3.3 × 10 8 m/s
Which relationship represents the index of 161. If the speed of light in a vacuum is C then the
refraction of the glass? speed of light in a medium with an index of
refraction of 2 will be
A) B) C) D)
A) B) 2C C) D) 4C
156. A beam of monochromatic light (l = 5.9 × 10 –7
meter) crosses a boundary from air into Lucite at
an angle of incidence of 45º. The angle of
refraction is approximately
A) 63º B) 56º C) 37º D) 28º
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162. In the diagram below, monochromatic light (l = 5.9 167. Base your answer to the following question on
10 –7 meter) in air is about to travel through crown the diagram below which represents a ray of yellow
glass, water, and diamond. light (l = 5.9 × 10 –7 meter in air) passing from air
into Lucite. Angle 1 is 45°.

In which substance does the light travel the

slowest?
A) air B) diamond
C) water D) crown glass
Base your answers to questions 163 through 165 on
the diagram below which represents a ray of
monochromatic yellow light
What is the approximate speed of light in the
incident upon a block of lucite at point A,and
Lucite?
continuing through the lucite to point B.
A) 1.5 × 10 8 m/s B) 2.0 × 10 8 m/s
C) 3.0 × 10 5 m/s D) 4.5 × 10 8 m/s

163. What is the sine of the critical angle for Lucite?

A) 0.15 B) 0.33 C) 0.50 D) 0.67
164. The sine of q is closest to
A) 0.30 B) 0.33 C) 0.58 D) 0.75
165. What is the speed of the yellow light in the Lucite?
A) B)
C) D)

166. The speed of light in glycerol is approximately

A) 1.0 × 10 7 m/s B) 2.0 × 10 8 m/s
C) 3.0 × 10 8 m/s D) 4.4 × 10 8 m/s
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Base your answers to questions 168 through 170 on Base your answers to questions 171 and 172 on the
the diagram below which represents two media with information and diagram below.
parallel surfaces in air and a ray of light passing
through them. A converging lens has a focal length of 0.080
meter. A light ray travels from the object to the
lens parallel to the principal axis.

171. If the lens were placed in water, its focal length

would
A) decrease B) increase
168. What is the sine of the critical angle for light C) remain the same
passing from water into air?
172. If the lens is made of crown glass, the speed of
A) 0.50 B) 0.75 C) 0.87 D) 1.33 light in the lens is closest to
169. Ray EFG would be a straight line if the index of A) 1.5 × 10 8 m/s B) 2.0 × 10 8 m/s
refraction for medium X were C) 3.0 × 10 8 m/s D) 4.0 × 10 8 m/s
A) less than 1.33 B) greater than 1.33
C) equal to 1.33 173. Increasing the amplitude of a sound wave will
make it
170. What is the approximate speed of light in water?
A) louder
A) B) B) have a higher pitch
C) D) C) travel faster
D) produce beats
174. The amplitude of a sound wave is most closely
related to the sound's
A) speed B) wavelength
C) loudness D) pitch
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175. An electric bell connected to a battery is sealed 179. A person sees a bolt of lightning and then hears the
inside a large jar. What happens as the air is thunder 4 seconds later. If the air temperature is
removed from the jar? 20ºC, approximately how far away was the
lightning?
A) The electric circuit stops working because
electromagnetic radiation can not travel A) 86 m B) 344 m
through a vacuum. C) 1,376 m D) 6,880 m
B) The bell’s pitch decreases because the 180. A sound wave has a wavelength of 2 meters and a
frequency of the sound waves is lower in a frequency of 100 cycles per second. The speed of
vacuum than in air. the wave is
C) The bell’s loudness increases because of
decreased air resistance. A) 0.02 m/s B) 50 m/s
D) The bell’s loudness decreases because C) 100 m/s D) 200 m/s
sound waves can not travel through a 181. Resonance occurs when one vibrating object
vacuum. transfers energy to a second object causing it to
176. A term often used to describe the frequency of a vibrate. The energy transfer is most efficient when,
sound is called compared to the first object, the second object has
the same natural
A) amplitude B) volume
C) pitch D) tone A) frequency B) loudness
C) amplitude D) speed
177. Base your answer to the following question on the
graph below which shows the variations in the 182. A student in a band notices that a drum vibrates
speed of sound in air at different temperatures. when another instrument emits a certain frequency
note. This phenomenon illustrates
A) reflection B) resonance
C) refraction D) diffraction
183. When air is blown across the top of an open water
bottle, air molecules in the bottle vibrate at a
particular frequency and sound is produced. This
phenomenon is called
A) diffraction B) refraction
C) resonance D) the Doppler effect
184. A 256-hertz vibrating tuning fork is brought near a
When the temperature of the air increases from
nonvibrating 256-hertz tuning fork. The second
20ºC to 30ºC, the increase in the speed of sound is
tuning fork begins to vibrate. Which phenomena
A) 6 m/s B) 10 m/s causes the nonvibrating tuning fork begin to
C) 344 m/s D) 350 m/s vibrate?
178. A sound wave passes from air into water and then A) resistance B) resonance
into steel. With each change in medium, the C) refraction D) reflection
velocity of this wave will
A) decrease
B) increase
C) decrease, then increase
D) increase, then decrease
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1. B 37. C 73. C 109. D

2. B 38. D 74. C 110. D
3. D 39. C 75. D 111. D
4. B 40. C 76. D 112. A
5. C 41. B 77. D 113. D
6. C 42. A 78. A 114. C
7. D 43. D 79. A 115. C
8. A 44. D 80. D 116. C
9. C 45. D 81. A 117. B
10. C 46. D 82. C 118. A
11. D 47. C 83. C 119. A
12. D 48. A 84. B 120. C
13. D 49. D 85. C 121. D
14. A 50. C 86. D 122. A
15. B 51. C 87. B 123. A
16. A 52. D 88. D 124. C
17. B 53. D 89. C 125. D
18. C 54. D 90. A 126. B
19. D 55. B 91. C 127. A
20. D 56. D 92. C 128. D
21. B 57. B 93. C 129. A
22. B 58. D 94. B 130. A
23. A 59. B 95. C 131. B
24. B 60. D 96. C 132. B
25. C 61. B 97. C 133. C
26. A 62. B 98. B 134. A
27. A 63. A 99. A 135. A
28. B 64. C 100. D 136. C
29. D 65. A 101. B 137. D
30. D 66. C 102. B 138. C
31. B 67. B 103. C 139. C
32. D 68. A 104. B 140. D
33. A 69. C 105. C 141. B
34. C 70. B 106. D 142. A
35. D 71. A 107. D 143. D
36. A 72. B 108. D 144. C
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145. A 181. A
146. C 182. B
147. A 183. C
148. C 184. B
149. A
150. B
151. A
152. C
153. C
154. B
155. D
156. D
157. C
158. A
159. C
160. B
161. A
162. B
163. D
164. C
165. B
166. B
167. B
168. B
169. C
170. B
171. B
172. B
173. A
174. C
175. D
176. C
177. A
178. B
179. C
180. D