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Geometric and Physical Optics

Question 1
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What effect does adding more capacitors in parallel have on the total capacitance of an electrical circuit?

Question 2
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If a plane electromagnetic wave is traveling in a vacuum and then enters a medium with a higher refractive index, what happens to the speed of the wave within that medium?

Question 3
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What is the SI unit of frequency for electromagnetic waves?

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When sunlight passes through Earth's atmosphere and heats its surface, which process describes how this heat is distributed around our planet?

Question 5
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In what way did Heinrich Hertz's experiments affirm Maxwell's theories about electromagnetic waves?

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In what way does increasing frequency affect electromagnetic waves traveling through vacuum?

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What type of heat transfer mechanism primarily warms your hands when holding them near a campfire?

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Question 8
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What happens to the current through an ideal resistor when the voltage across it is halved?

Question 9
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If the speed of light in a vacuum were to decrease, what would be the most immediate effect on the energy (E) of photons emitted by an LED light with a fixed frequency (f)?

Question 10
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Which term refers to the angle between the direction of an electromagnetic wave's electric field vector and the direction of propagation?