Exercise 1

Light
1. State the difference between luminous and non-luminous objects.

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2. What is the luminous object which providing light for you to read this question?

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3. Classifying three non-luminous objects.

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4. Thunder and lightning happen at the same time.

(a) We see the flash of lightning before we hear the thunder. Give the reason for this.

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(b) Omar investigated the movement of a storm. He measured the time between
seeing a flash of lightning and hearing the thunder. He did this six times. Omar
put his results in a table.

flash of time between seeing the

lightning lightning and hearing the
thunder, in seconds
A 8.0
B 5.0
C 3.0
D 9.0
E 13.0
F 16.5
 Exercise 1
Light
Omar drew a bar chart of his results as shown below.

18
16
14
12
time,in 10
seconds 8
6
4
2
0
A B C D E F
flash of lightning

(i) On the bar chart, draw a bar for flash D. Use a ruler.

(ii) Which flash of lightning was closest to Omar? Give the correct letter.

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(iii) Describe how the distance between the storm and Omar changed as the storm moved
between flash A and flash F.

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5. Complete the diagrams below.