Wave optics bingo

Exercise and reference answers

Clues and terms

1. Clue

   Dutch physicist who proposed the wave picture in 1678

   Item

   Huygens

2. Clue

   A surface of constant phase

   Item

   Wavefront

3. Clue

   His famous 1801 experiment established interference

   Item

   Young

4. Clue

   Steady bright and dark bands from two sources

   Item

   Interference

5. Clue

   Studied with the pattern of a single slit

   Item

   Diffraction

6. Clue

   Rests on light waves being transverse

   Item

   Polarisation

7. Clue

   Wavefront shape spreading from a point source

   Item

   Spherical

8. Clue

   Emits waves uniformly in all directions

   Item

   Point source

9. Clue

   What the two sources must be for steady fringes

   Item

   Coherent

Instructions

Read each call, tap its term on the board. Three in a line is bingo.

Explanation