SCIENCE QUIZ

BASIC

QUIZ ON THE STUDY GUIDE

1. How was the distance to the moon measured?
2. What are the elements to a laser show?
3. What are the main parts of a laser?
4. What does an electrical transformer do?
5. What is stimulated emission?
6. How are mirrors used to create laser images?
7. List the types of radiant energy.
8. What type of light "rays" are the shortest? What type are the longest?
9. What did Sir Isaac Newton discover in 1666?
10. What is phosphorescence?
11. How fast does light travel in empty space?
12. Who made the first accurate measurement of the speed of light?
13. What type of waves are radio waves?
14. Who assigns the frequencies for radio and TV in the United States? In Canada ?
15. What two types of radio stations are there?
16. What did Sir George Stokes discover?
17. What happens when fluorescent material is exposed to blacklight?
18. What creates ultraviolet light?
19. Where is the ozone layer? What does it do?
20. What are the two smallest things in the universe?
21. What is an atom made of?
22. What do you get when you combine atoms?
23. What two types of electrical current are there?

BASIC

QUIZ ON THE SHOW

1. What color were the lasers in the show?

2. What made them show up so that you could see them?
1. During what parts of the show did Laser Vaudeville turn the lights off?
2. What type of microphone do the performers use?
3. How do the performers communicate with the lighting and stage technicians?
4. What acts were the black lights used for?
5. What colors showed up in the blacklight?
6. What does Lazer Vaudeville use direct current for? Indirect current? 

ADVANCED

QUIZ ON THE STUDY GUIDE

1. How does a gas laser work?

2. How are the "x" and "y" axis used to create laser images?
3. What materials besides gas are used to create a laser?
1. What does L.A.S.E.R. stand for?
2. Who invented lasers?
3. Light waves are a combinations of what kinds of waves?
4. What determines the color of light?
5. What is the difference between incoherent light and coherent light?
6. Who sent the first radio signal?
7. In radio terms what does AM stand for? FM?
8. Why are there more FM stations than AM stations?
9. Explain how blacklights work.
10. What does ultraviolet light do?
11. Diagram an ozone molecule.
12. What is happening to the ozone layer today?
13. What are the parts of an atom and what are their electrical charges?
14. What are photovoltaic cells?
15. How is electricity created ?
16. How big was the first computer? What was it called?

ADVANCED

QUIZ ON THE SHOW

1. What does Lazer Vaudeville need to think about to set up for a good laser show?
2. What generates the laser patterns?
3. In the Lazer Vaudeville show when was coherent light used? When was incoherent light used?
4. What are the many ways Lazer Vaudeville uses radio signals during a show?
5. Why does Lazer Vaudeville use blacklights?
6. What does the MIDI control in order to create a laser show?

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