Simple Nature - Light and Matter

Now position yourself with your head under a light fixture and directly over a shiny surface, such as a glossy tabletop. You’ll ...

762 Chapter 11 Electromagnetism ...

Chapter 12 Optics 12.1 The ray model of light Ads for one Macintosh computer bragged that it could do an arith- metic calculatio ...

12.1.1 The nature of light The cause and effect relationship in vision Despite its title, this chapter is far from your first lo ...

a/Light from a candle is bumped off course by a piece of glass. Inserting the glass causes the apparent location of the candle t ...

b/An image of Jupiter and its moon Io (left) from the Cassini probe. c/The earth is moving to- ward Jupiter and Io. Since the di ...

propagation of light. Discussion Questions A If you observe thunder and lightning, you can tell how far away the storm is. Do yo ...

d/Two self-portraits of the author, one taken in a mirror and one with a piece of aluminum foil. e/Specular and diffuse re- flec ...

f/Light bounces off of the ceiling, then off of the book. g/Discussion question C. Numerical measurement of the brightness of li ...

ultimate truth about light, but the ray model is simpler, and in any case science always deals with models of reality, not the u ...

but a full understanding of this apparently nonsensical statement is a topic for section 13.2. i/Examples of ray diagrams. Ray d ...

There is a tendency to conceptualize rays incorrectly as ob- jects. In his Optics, Newton goes out of his way to caution the re ...

k/The geometry of specular reflection. until the twentieth century it was believed to be immune to gravity as well. Einstein pre ...

self-check A Each of these diagrams is supposed to show two different rays being reflected from the same point on the same mirro ...

be used for video games and computer-animated movies. One trick for speeding up the computation is to exploit the reversibility ...

m/Discussion question B. n/Discussion question C. o/The solid lines are physi- cally possible paths for light rays traveling fro ...

p/Paths AQB and APB are two conceivable paths that a ray could follow to get from A to B with one reflection, but only AQB is ph ...

a/An image formed by a mirror. 12.2 Images by reflection Infants are always fascinated by the antics of the Baby in the Mirror. ...

c/The praxinoscope. Imagine that the person in figure a moves his face down quite a bit — a couple of feet in real life, or a fe ...

Discussion Question A The figure shows an object that is off to one side of a mirror. Draw a ray diagram. Is an image formed? If ...