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Light and Sound Knowledge Checklist

This checklist provides tasks to assess understanding of light and sound. It includes identifying sources of sound, relating sound properties to vibration characteristics, explaining how sound travels, describing how the ear works, and comparing sound and light speeds. It also covers drawing ray diagrams, applying the laws of reflection and refraction, explaining dispersion, and describing how colored filters absorb and transmit light. Students should self-assess their confidence on a scale of 1 to 10 for each task.

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Light and Sound Knowledge Checklist

This checklist provides tasks to assess understanding of light and sound. It includes identifying sources of sound, relating sound properties to vibration characteristics, explaining how sound travels, describing how the ear works, and comparing sound and light speeds. It also covers drawing ray diagrams, applying the laws of reflection and refraction, explaining dispersion, and describing how colored filters absorb and transmit light. Students should self-assess their confidence on a scale of 1 to 10 for each task.

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Light and Sound Checklist

Use this checklist to help prepare you for the ‘Light and Sound’ Assessments. You should fill in the
final column with either a score out of 10 or by colouring it in red, yellow or green.

Light and Sound


I can… Confidence
Identify sources of sounds by knowing that they are caused by vibrations
Relate high pitched sounds to high frequency vibrations
Relate loud sounds to high amplitude vibrations
Compare wave pictures of sound from an oscilloscope so that loud/quiet, high/low sounds
can be identified
Recall that sound needs a medium to travel through
Explain the terms ‘medium’ and ‘vacuum’ within the context of sound
Link the speed of sound through various materials (e.g. solids, liquids or gases) to their density
(higher density means greater speed of sound)
Describe how the human ear works with reference to the outer, middle and inner ear
Recall that humans have an approximate hearing range of 20 – 20 000Hz
Analyse data to compare the hearing ranges of different animals
Recall that sound loudness is measured in decibels
Appreciate that exposure to loud sounds can lead to hearing damage (the louder the sound
and longer the exposure, the more damage done)
Compare the speed of light and sound
Calculate the speed of sound from practical data
Draw ray diagrams that show an understanding that light travels in straight lines
Describe the meanings of the terms transparent, translucent and opaque and describe how
light interacts with these materials.
State the meaning of the normal line in the context of ray diagrams
Describe the law of reflection and apply it to ray diagrams involving the reflection of light
Describe the nature of the image formed by a plane mirror
Explain the difference between light reflected from a rough surface (diffuse reflection) and a
shiny surface
Understand that light can change direction at a boundary between two different media
(materials)
Show understanding that light travelling along the normal line won’t be refracted (won’t
change direction)
Use understanding of refraction to draw rays passing through transparent blocks
Use understanding of refraction to explain everyday situations involving refraction (such as
the appearance of objects under water)
Describe what is meant by the term dispersion and how it is achieved using a triangular prism
Recall the order of the colour spectrum when light is dispersed
Identify green, red and blue as the primary colours of light
Describe how the secondary colours of yellow, cyan and magenta are produced
Recall that white light is formed from the combination of all three primary colours
Explain which colours are absorbed and which are reflected by different coloured objects
Describe the action of coloured filters on white light and different coloured light in terms of
which colours are absorbed and which are transmitted

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