Da Vinci Decathlon 2025 - Theme: Light Flashcards

Vocabulary flashcards based on the Da Vinci Decathlon 2025 notes.

Thomas Edison

Inventor credited with the first practical incandescent light bulb.

Empedocles

Ancient Greek thinker who theorised that vision involved rays emitted from the eyes.

Isaac Newton

Enlightenment-era scientist who discovered that white light is composed of all visible colours.

Theodore Maiman

Physicist who built the first laser in 1960.

Mayans

Early civilisation that used polished obsidian to craft primitive mirrors.

Cleveland

City, in 1879, that was the first to be lit entirely by electric streetlights.

Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)

Persian scientist often credited with early experiments on optics and lenses.

Impressionist

Art movement known for its attention to changing light and natural scenes.

M.L. Stedman

Author of The Light Between Oceans.

Caravaggio

Baroque painter known for dramatic chiaroscuro (light and shadow).

György Ligeti

Composer of the choral piece "Lux Aeterna".

Le Corbusier

Architect who famously used light as a material in the Ronchamp Chapel.

Light Verse

Meaning humorous poetry

Julia Meltzer

Director of The Light in Her Eyes, a documentary about female religious education in Syria.

Thomas Edison

Inventor credited with the first practical incandescent light bulb.

Empedocles

Ancient Greek thinker who theorised that vision involved rays emitted from the eyes.

Isaac Newton

Enlightenment-era scientist who discovered that white light is composed of all visible colours.

Theodore Maiman

Physicist who built the first laser in 1960.

Mayans

Early civilisation that used polished obsidian to craft primitive mirrors.

Cleveland

City, in 1879, that was the first to be lit entirely by electric streetlights.

Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)

Persian scientist often credited with early experiments on optics and lenses.

Impressionist

Art movement known for its attention to changing light and natural scenes.

M.L. Stedman

Author of The Light Between Oceans.

Caravaggio

Baroque painter known for dramatic chiaroscuro (light and shadow).

György Ligeti

Composer of the choral piece "Lux Aeterna".

Le Corbusier

Architect who famously used light as a material in the Ronchamp Chapel.

Light Verse

Meaning humorous poetry

Julia Meltzer

Director of The Light in Her Eyes, a documentary about female religious education in Syria.

Aristotle

Proposed that light is a type of motion and is essential for vision in On Generation and Corruption.

Pythagoras

Theorized that vision occurs when the eye releases rays that interact with light from objects.

Plato

Linked light to the realm of ideal forms, particularly in the allegory of the cave.

Anaximander

Suggested that light is related to an underlying substance or force that connects the cosmos.

Johannes Kepler

Made significant contributions to the understanding of the behavior of light through reflection and refraction during the Renaissance period.

René Descartes

Suggested that light travels as a wave and explained optical phenomena like refraction in Dioptrics.

Albert Einstein

Introduced the concept of wave-particle duality of light in modern physics.

Thomas Edison

Inventor credited with the first practical incandescent light bulb.

Empedocles

Ancient Greek thinker who theorised that vision involved rays emitted from the eyes.

Isaac Newton

Enlightenment-era scientist who discovered that white light is composed of all visible colours.

Theodore Maiman

Physicist who built the first laser in 1960.

Mayans

Early civilisation that used polished obsidian to craft primitive mirrors.

Cleveland

City, in 1879, that was the first to be lit entirely by electric streetlights.

Alhazen (Ibn al-Haytham)

Persian scientist often credited with early experiments on optics and lenses.

Impressionist

Art movement known for its attention to changing light and natural scenes.

M.L. Stedman

Author of The Light Between Oceans.

Caravaggio

Baroque painter known for dramatic chiaroscuro (light and shadow).

György Ligeti

Composer of the choral piece \"Lux Aeterna\".

Le Corbusier

Architect who famously used light as a material in the Ronchamp Chapel.

Light Verse

Meaning humorous poetry

Julia Meltzer

Director of The Light in Her Eyes, a documentary about female religious education in Syria.

Aristotle

Proposed that light is a type of motion and is essential for vision in On Generation and Corruption.

Pythagoras

Theorized that vision occurs when the eye releases rays that interact with light from objects.

Plato

Linked light to the realm of ideal forms, particularly in the allegory of the cave.

Anaximander

Suggested that light is related to an underlying substance or force that connects the cosmos.

Johannes Kepler

Made significant contributions to the understanding of the behavior of light through reflection and refraction during the Renaissance period.

René Descartes

Suggested that light travels as a wave and explained optical phenomena like refraction in Dioptrics.

Albert Einstein

Introduced the concept of wave-particle duality of light in modern physics.

Speed of Light in a Vacuum

3.00 x 10^8 m/s

Splitting Light into a Spectrum

Isaac Newton

Bending of Light Through Mediums

Refraction

Light as Stream of Particles

Euclid

Electromagnetic Wave with Shortest Wavelength

Gamma rays

Light as Motion Required for Vision

Aristotle

Theory of Wave-Particle Duality

Louis de Broglie

Plato's Allegory of the Cave

The Republic

Quantum Mechanics Light Behavior

Max Planck

Not Part of Visible Spectrum

Ultraviolet

Light Reflections and Angles

Euclid

Alhazen's Discovery

Concept of light reflection

Light Bending Around Obstacles

Diffraction

Photoelectric Effect

Albert Einstein

Speed of Light Relative to Mediums

Faster in a vacuum than in air

Function of Human Eye Lens

To refract light onto the retina

Light Exhibiting Wave Behavior

Refraction through water

Light's Ability as Particle & Wave

Dual nature

Source of Ultimate Knowledge in Cave

Plato

Young’s Double-Slit Experiment

Light can create an interference pattern

Phenomenon Showing Particle Nature

The photoelectric effect

Prism Experiment

Isaac Newton

Bending of Light Between Mediums

Refraction

Highest Light Frequency

Gamma rays

Believed Light Was a Stream

Pythagoras

Theory of Electromagnetic Radiation

James Clerk Maxwell

Controls Light Entering Eye

Pupil

Role of Light in Photosynthesis

Light is used to split water molecules

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