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Light Facts
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Can you do the following?
- I know that light travels faster than sound.
- I know light can travel through empty space and different states of matter.
- I can describe how an object either produces its own light or reflects light from a source.
- I can explain how the color of an object is based on the color being reflected.
- I can categorize materials as transparent, translucent, or opaque depending on how much light they let through.
- I can explain how an opaque object creates a shadow.
- I can observe that light travels in a straight line unless it interacts with an object or a different state of matter (absorbed, reflected, or refracted).
- I can demonstrate that light can increase the temperature of an object based on: the material of the object, the angle of the light ray, how long the light shines on the object, and how much light is absorbed.
- I can observe how light refracts when it travels from one state of matter to another.
- I can conduct an experiment with prisms and magnifying lenses to observe the refraction of light.