Simple Nature - Light and Matter

d/The incident, reflected, and transmitted (refracted) rays all lie in a plane that includes the normal (dashed line). e/The ang ...

g/The relationship between the angles in refraction. shown on this graph and then attempted by trial and error to find the right ...

h/Example 10. i/A mechanical model of re- fraction. Finding an angle using Snell’s law example 10 .A submarine shines its search ...

the mechanical model would predict that a motorcycle would go straight, and a motorcycle seems like a better approximation to a ...

k/Total internal reflection in a fiber-optic cable. l/A simplified drawing of a surgical endoscope. The first lens forms a real ...

that your calculator will flash an error message at you when you try to take the inverse sine. What can happen physically in suc ...

concept of the focal length of a lens is the same as for a curved mirror. The equations for locating images and determining magn ...

p/The radii of curvature ap- pearing in the lensmaker’s equation. D Classify the examples shown in figure o according to the typ ...

q/Dispersion of white light by a prism. White light is a mixture of all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum. Waves of differ ...

12.4.6 ?Microscopic description of refraction Given that the speed of light is different in different media, we’ve seen two diff ...

t/1. A wave incident on a sheet of glass excites current in the glass, which produce a sec- ondary wave. 2. The secondary wave s ...

a/In this view from overhead, a straight, sinusoidal water wave encounters a barrier with two gaps in it. Strong wave vibration ...

c/A practical, low-tech setup for observing diffraction of light. d/The bottom figure is sim- ply a copy of the middle portion o ...

e/Christiaan Huygens (1629- 1695). of a crystal? Sound waves are used to make images of fetuses in the womb. What would influenc ...

f/Double-slit diffraction. g/A wavefront can be analyzed by the principle of superposition, breaking it down into many small par ...

j/Thomas Young k/Double-slit diffraction. l/Use of Huygens’ principle. m/Constructive interference along the center-line. light ...

n/The waves travel distancesL andL′from the two slits to get to the same point in space, at an angleθfrom the center line. o/A c ...

p/Cutting d in half doubles the angles of the diffraction fringes. q/Double-slit diffraction pat- terns of long-wavelength red l ...

r/Interpretation of the angu- lar spacing ∆θ in example 14. It can be defined either from maximum to maximum or from minimum to ...

s/A triple slit. t/A double-slit diffraction pattern (top), and a pattern made by five slits (bottom). Although the equationλ/d= ...