College Physics

Land, act as apolarizingslit for light, allowing only polarization in one direction to pass through. Polarizing filters are comp ...

Figure 27.41The effect of rotating two polarizing filters, where the first polarizes the light. (a) All of the polarized light i ...

will notice the light gets bright and dim, but not completely black. This implies the reflected light is partially polarized and ...

molecule and are more restricted in their movement perpendicular to the molecule. Thus, the electrons can absorb EM waves that h ...

slightly polarized vertically. It will not be completely polarized vertically, because only a small fraction of the incident lig ...

Figure 27.47(a) Polarized light is rotated90ºby a liquid crystal and then passed by a polarizing filter that has its axis perpen ...

Figure 27.49Optical stress analysis of a plastic lens placed between crossed polarizers. (credit: Infopro, Wikimedia Commons) An ...

Figure 27.51Light rays passing through a sample under a microscope will emerge with different phases depending on their paths. T ...

Figure 27.53Simplified construction of a phase-contrast microscope. Phase differences between light passing through the object a ...

axis of a polarizing filter: Brewster’s angle: Brewster’s law: birefringent: coherent: confocal microscopes: constructive interf ...

phase-contrast microscope: polarization microscope: polarization: polarized: Rayleigh criterion: reflected light that is complet ...

• This occurs for two point objects separated by the angleθ= 1.22λ D , whereλis the wavelength of light (or other electromagneti ...

27.4 Multiple Slit Diffraction 12.What is the advantage of a diffraction grating over a double slit in dispersing light into a s ...

Problems & Exercises 27.1 The Wave Aspect of Light: Interference 1.Show that when light passes from air to water, its wavele ...

32.An opal such as that shown inFigure 27.17acts like a reflection grating with rows separated by about8 μm. If the opal is illu ...

57.The 300-m-diameter Arecibo radio telescope pictured inFigure 27.28 detects radio waves with a 4.00 cm average wavelength. (a) ...

one end and rests on a 0.100-mm-diameter hair at the other end, forming a wedge of air. (a) How far apart are the dark bands, if ...

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28 SPECIAL RELATIVITY Figure 28.1Special relativity explains why traveling to other star systems, such as these in the Orion Neb ...

Figure 28.2Many people think that Albert Einstein (1879–1955) was the greatest physicist of the 20th century. Not only did he de ...