Simple Nature - Light and Matter

v/Single-slit diffraction of water waves. w/Single-slit diffraction of red light. Note the double width of the central maximum. ...

y/An image of the Pleiades star cluster. The circular rings around the bright stars are due to single-slit diffraction at the mo ...

ing corresponding to the large distanced, and a long spacing that relates to the small dimensionw. aa/1. A diffraction pattern f ...

ab/1. Interference in an air wedge. 2. Side view. 3. If the wedge is thicker than the co- herence length of the light, the inter ...

ad/Light could take many different paths from A to B. separation is 20λ, approximately the width of the entire figure, the phase ...

table, ad/2, turned out to have a group of rays that all traveled nearly the same distance. As discussed in subsection 12.1.5, t ...

Problems The symbols √ , , etc. are explained on page 844. 1 Draw a ray diagram showing why a small light source (a candle, say) ...

6 The figure on the next page shows a curved (parabolic) mir- ror, with three parallel light rays coming toward it. One ray is a ...

Problem 13. 9 In section 12.2 we’ve only done examples of mirrors with hollowed-out shapes (called concave mirrors). Now draw a ...

Problem 18. 14 Here’s a game my kids like to play. I sit next to a sunny window, and the sun reflects from the glass on my watch ...

Problem 23. 22 A concave surface that reflects sound waves can act just like a converging mirror. Suppose that, standing near su ...

27 Suppose a converging lens is constructed of a type of plastic whose index of refraction is less than that of water. How will ...

Problem 33. Problem 34. 31 When swimming underwater, why is your vision made much clearer by wearing goggles with flat pieces of ...

Problem 39. cm, locate the image. √ 37 (a) Light is being reflected diffusely from an object 1.000 m underwater. The light that ...

used to collect light). When switching from a 50-mm lens to a 28- mm lens, how many times longer or shorter must the exposure be ...

42 This problem has been deleted. 43 It would be annoying if your eyeglasses produced a magnified or reduced image. Prove that w ...

Problems 44 and 47. 44 The figure shows a diffraction pattern made by a double slit, along with an image of a meter stick to sho ...

46 The figure below shows two diffraction patterns. The top one was made with yellow light, and the bottom one with red. Could t ...

Problem 51. This image of the Pleiades star cluster shows haloes around the stars due to the wave nature of light. 51 For star i ...

53 The beam of a laser passes through a diffraction grating, fans out, and illuminates a wall that is perpendicular to the origi ...