Grade 10 Physics: The Wonders of Rays
Explore the fundamental principles of light rays, including reflection, refraction, and their applications, with this comprehensive Grade 10 Physics worksheet.
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Grade 10 Physics: The Wonders of Rays
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Read each question carefully and answer to the best of your ability. Show all your work for calculations.
1. Which phenomenon is responsible for the splitting of white light into its constituent colors when it passes through a prism?

Reflection
Refraction
Dispersion
Diffraction
2. When light travels from a denser medium to a rarer medium and hits the interface at an angle greater than the critical angle, what phenomenon occurs?
Refraction
Total Internal Reflection
Partial Reflection
Absorption
3. The bending of light as it passes from one medium to another is called .
4. A mirror that diverges parallel rays of light is a mirror.
5. State the Law of Reflection.
6. Explain the difference between a real image and a virtual image.
7. Light travels fastest in a vacuum.
True
False
8. Concave lenses converge parallel rays of light.
True
False