Direction: Answer the following questions briefly. Write your answer on the space provided. 1.

How does your AM/FM radio pick up signal from the air? 2. List down communication devices that people are using at present and write down the benefits that each renders. 3. How does communication develop into wireless communication? III. Sequencing Some events and discoveries related to the development of communication are listed below. Number each one according to the correct order of occurrence from the earliest to the latest. ______ invention of telegraph ______ invention of telephone ______ radio communication ______ digital communication How was your performance in the pretest? At

7. Even steel bridge can collapse because of resonance. 8. The word pitch refers to the period of a sound wave. 9. If you strike a tuning fork and hold it on a table, the sound becomes relatively loud. 10. When an object is disturbed slightly and then left alone, it vibrates at its natural frequency. 11. When an object is forced to vibrate at its natural frequency, its vibration amplitude gets very large. 12. Interference patterns are produced when two sources of waves are placed side by side. 13. Two speakers can be set side-by-side so there are some places in front of them where there is no sound. 14. Repeated echo is known as reverberations. 15. Sound can also exhibit refraction. 1. The theory that explains light as a particle. a. corpuscular theory c. quantum theory b. electromagnetic wave theory d. wave theory 2. When we see a tree, the light that reaches our eyes a. has been reflected by the tree. b. has been refracted by the tree. c. has been separated into a spectrum by the tree. d. has undergone interference in passing through the tree. 3. Enlarged image can be formed by a. concave mirrors only c. either concave or convex mirror b. convex mirrors only d. neither concave nor convex mirror 4. The image formed by a convex mirror is always a. real c. bigger than the object b. inverted d. smaller than the object 5. If you are looking obliquely on a fish under water, in what direction should you aim your arrow to hit it? a. above the fish c. directly to the fish b. below the fish d. either below or above the fish 6. The term refraction refers to a. the bending of light rays when they strike a mirror. b. the bending of light rays when they enter a different medium. c. the fact that white light is made up of many colors. d. the fact that light travels in straight line in uniform medium. 7. As the angle of incidence increases, the index of refraction of a medium a. increases c. remains unchanged b. decreases d. none of the above 8. If you look down on a pool of still water, you see your face clearly. Which one of the following gives the best explanation for this observation? a. Dispersion of light on entering water b. Reflection of light by the surface of the water c. Refraction of light by the surface of the water d. Light is reflected from the surface of the water in different directions.

II. Write A if the statement is TRUE and B if the statement is FALSE. 1. A pulse of compressed air that is part of a sound wave is called refraction. 2. When an object is forced to vibrate at its natural frequency, resonance occurs. 3. Beats occur when two tuning forks at slightly different frequencies are sounded together. 4. Sound can travel through solids, liquids, and gases and even in a vacuum. 5. In order for sound from a speaker to reach a listener, air near the speaker must move to the listener. 6. Almost everything that exists has a natural frequency.

9. A diamond is a brilliant gem because a. it has low index of refraction. c. most of the light is refracted. b. it has big critical angle. d. most of the light is reflected internally. 10. A ray of light is reflected from a plane mirror. The angle of incidence is 20o. The angle between the incident and the reflected ray is a. 10o c. 30o o b. 20 d. 40o 11. When you stand 3 m in front of a full length mirror, your image is a. real and 1 m behind the mirror c. virtual and 2 m behind the mirror b. real and 3 m behind the mirror d. virtual and 3 m behind the mirror 12. The bottom of a clear and deep lake appears to be shallow because of ____________ a. diffraction b. polarization c. reflection d. refraction 13. When sunlight strikes raindrops, it passes through them and produces a. halo b. heat c. rainbow d. shadow 14. Side mirrors of motor vehicles allow the driver to see wider areas. What best describes the images compared to the real object in this kind of mirror? a. bigger b. smaller c. the same d. inverted 15. What do you call the separation of light into its component colors? a. dispersion b. polarization c. reflection d. refraction 16. Where does light travel fastest? a. air b. glass c. vacuum d. water 17. What do you call the bending of light around the corners of objects? a. diffraction b. dispersion c. reflection d. refraction 18. A beam of light traveling in air enters a glass medium. What changes does it undergo? a. change in speed only c. change in wavelength only b. change in frequency only d. change in both speed and wavelength 19. Which is the color of visible light with the longest wavelength? a. blue b. red c. violet d. yellow 20. Which of the following is a good description of a polarized light? a. It is an ordinary light. c. It is a longitudinal wave. b. It is a transverse wave. d. It is a wave that vibrates in all directions. 1. A person views his image in front of a mirror. His image appeared to be real, inverted, and larger than him. What kind of mirror did he use? a. plane c. convex b. concave d. all of the above 2. Which of the following cannot be polarized? a. sunlight c. sound waves e. radio waves b. laser light d. a transverse wave on a string 3. A girl standing 2 meter in front of a plane mirror wishes to take a picture of her reflection. To what object distance should she set her camera lens? a. 0.5 meters c. 2 meters b. 1 meter d. 4 meters 4. Which optical device(s) on the list below will always give a virtual image of a real object regardless of how far the object is away from the device? I. plane mirror II. convex lens III. concave lens

a. I and II only c. I and III only b. II and III only d. I, II and III 5. The ability to focus the image of an object at different distances on the retina. a. accommodation c. regular reflection b. dispersion d. none of the above 6. Which instrument is most similar to the eye? a. telescope c. glasses b. microscope d. camera 7. What happens to a light ray when it strikes a plane mirror? It is a. refracted. c. regularly reflected. b. scattered. d. irregularly reflected. 8. Which property of light waves make the images seen in lenses? a. refraction c. interference b. diffraction d. polarization 9. A farsighted person needs a convex lens. This lens can make the image fall a. beyond the retina of the eye. c. on the retina of the eye. b. before the retina of the eye. d. on the eyeball. 10. Why do objects appear visible and clear inside an open room during daytime? a. because of regular reflection c. because of internal reflection b. because of diffused reflection d. because of refraction 11. When light travels from a less optically dense medium to an optically denser one, it bends. Which statement describes the bending? a. towards the normal c. away from the normal b. along the normal d. none of the above 12. The following are parts of a camera except what? a. iris diaphragm c. convex lens b. shutter d. cornea 13. What part of a camera corresponds to the retina of the human eye? a. the film c. the lens b. the shutter d. the opening 14. Which of the following is formed when the light from an object is reflected by a mirror in such a way that the rays diverge from and pass through the reflection? a. a virtual image c. a real image b. spherical aberration d. a focal point 15. A transverse wave propagates along a string. The particles in the string move a. perpendicular to the direction of propagation. b. parallel to the direction of propagation. c. depends on the initial disturbance. d. not covered. 16. For a lens that produces a positive magnification, the image is a. real and upright. c. virtual and upright. b. real and inverted. d. virtual and inverted.

17. A ray of light passing obliquely from water into glass 26. A light ray travels from air to water as shown. Which of the rays is the a. does not change direction. c. is refracted away from the normal. refracted ray? b. is refracted toward the normal. d. is totally reflected. air 18. A diverging lens can produce water d. a. real and virtual images. c. images that are larger than the object. b. images that are inverted. d. images that are smaller than the object. c. a. b. 19. A sign with the word written on it, is viewed in front of a mirror. What would the word look like when seen in the mirror? 27. A mirror and three letters are arranged as shown. Which of the letter(s) a. c. will be seen by the observer at the position shown? b. d. a. X only c. Z only 20. If a ray of light is refracted from medium A into medium B, one can be b. Y only d. X, Y, and Z X Y Z sure that the speed of light in medium A. observer a. is greater than in medium B. b. is smaller than in medium B c. is equal to that in medium B d. maybe smaller or larger than in medium B. mirror 21. A dim violet light and a bright red light were made to hit a metal. Which 28. Which of the following is Sir Isaac Newtons theory that explains light as light may cause the ejection of photoelectrons and why? a particle? a. both since both possess energy a. Corpuscular Theory c. Quantum Theory b. bright red light because of its high intensity b. Electromagnetic Wave Theory d. Wave Theory c. bright red light because it has greater energy 29. When light hits a smooth surface, it is d. dim violet light because of its high frequency a. bent around corners c. reflected 22. The diagram shows the wave pattern of incident and reflected waves. b. polarized d. refracted The arrows indicate the direction of travel of these waves. If the angle of 30. A ray of light is reflected from a plane mirror. The angle of incidence is incidence is 45o. What is the angle of reflection? 20o. The angle between the incident and the reflected ray is o o a. less than 45 c. equal to 45 a. 10o b. 20o c. 30o d. 40o b. more than 45o d. double 45o 31. What kind of mirror is used in automobile and trucks to give the driver a 23. Light goes from medium A to medium B with an angle of incidence at 40o wider area and smaller image of the traffic behind him/her? and the angle of refraction at 30o. How will you compare the speed of light in a. concave mirror c. plane mirror B with that in A? b. convex mirror d. none of these a. The speed of light in B is less than that in A. 32. The image in a plane mirror is always b. The speed of light in B is the same as that in A. a. erect but reversed. c. inverted and reversed. c. The speed of light in B is greater than that in A. b. erect but not reversed. d. inverted but not reversed. d. Any of the above, depending on the specific medium. 33. When rays parallel to the principal axis of a concave mirror are reflected, 24. When an object is placed 15 cm from a concave mirror, a real image they pass through three times as large as the object is formed. What is the focal length of the a. any point on the axis.. mirror in centimeters? b. the principal focus. a. 45.0 cm c. 11.25 cm c. the center of curvature of the mirror. b. 22.5 cm d. 5.0 cm d. the point halfway between the focus and the mirror. 25. After a storm, a rainbow appears in the sky. Which statement explains 34. A stick partly submerged obliquely in water appears to be bent at a point the observation? where it enters the water surface. Which one of the following gives a. The white clouds are actually prism composed of different colors. explanation for this observation? b. When sunlight is reflected by the ground towards the clouds, it separates a. Dispersion of light on entering water into different colors. b. Light does not travel in straight line in water. c. Raindrops act as prisms separating sunlight into colors. c. Diffraction of light by the surface of the water d. The colors of the rainbow come from raindrops in the atmosphere. d. Refraction of light due to differences in speed of light in air 35. The principle involved in the formation of images on lenses is

a. aberration. c. reflection. b. dispersion. d. refraction. 36. A diamond is a brilliant gem because a. it has low index of refraction. c. most of the light is refracted. b. it has big critical angle. d. most of the light is reflected internally. 37. When light travels from air to glass its speed a. increases. c. remains the same. b. decreases. d. increases then decreases. 38. The property of light responsible for the formation of colors is a. amplitude. c. velocity. b. quality. d. wavelength. 39. Which of the following statements is NOT true about the dispersion of sunlight by a prism? a. The color most bent is red. b. White light consists of waves of varying length. c. Different wavelengths travel with different speed. d. Different wavelengths correspond to different colors. 40. After a rainstorm, a rainbow may appear in the sky. Which statement explains this observation? a. Raindrops act as prisms separating sunlight into colors. b. The white clouds are actually prisms composed of different colors. c. The colors of the rainbow come from raindrops in the atmosphere. d. When the sunlight is reflected by the ground towards the clouds, it separates into different colors. 41. A piece of coal appears black when viewed in sunlight because it __________ all the light that falls on it. a. absorbs c. reflects b. disperses d. transmits 42. A red rose appears red because of its ability to a. absorb the red color and reflect all others. b. reflect the red color and absorb all others. c. transmit all colors except red. d. transmit the red color and reflect all others. 43. Diffraction of light means that a. light is a transverse wave. b. light is reflected from a film. c. light bends as it enters a different medium. d. light bends as it passes through a small opening. 44. The sun appears to be more reddish at sunset than at noon. Which of the following phenomena is responsible for this effect? a. dispersion c. reflection b. interference d. scattering 45. Which property of light produces bright and dark bands on a screen after light from a source passes through two very narrow slits that are near each other? a. dispersion c. polarization b. interference d. refraction

46. When sunlight falls on soap bubble, the band of colors seen is due to a. dispersion. c. pigments of soap. b. interference. d. refraction. 47. Polarization of light is an evidence that light a. is a transverse wave. c. has a particle property. b. is a longitudinal wave. d. wave can destructively interfere with each