Simple Nature - Light and Matter

Problem 57. Problem 58. 57 Suppose we have a polygonal room whose walls are mirrors, and there a pointlike light source in the r ...

Problem 59. the ancient problem of inversion in a circle. Considering the case in which the rhombus is folded flat, let thekbe t ...

62 The intensity of a beam of light is defined as the power per unit area incident on a perpendicular surface. Suppose that a be ...

64 Zahra likes to play practical jokes on the friends she goes hiking with. One night, by a blazing camp fire, she stealthily us ...

Exercises Exercise 12A: Exploring Images With a Curved Mirror Equipment: concave mirrors with deep curvature concave mirrors wit ...

Now imagine the following new situation, butdon’t actually do it yet. Suppose you lay the mirror face-up on a piece of tissue p ...

Now imagine the following experiment, butdon’t do it yet. What will happen to the image on the paper if you cover half of the m ...

Exercise 12B: Object and Image Distances Equipment: optical benches converging mirrors illuminated objects Set up the optical b ...

Exercise 12C: How strong are your glasses? This exercise was created by Dan MacIsaac. Equipment: eyeglasses diverging lenses for ...

Exercise 12D: Double-Source Interference Two sources separated by a distanced= 2 cm make circular ripples with a wavelength of ...

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Exercise 12E: Single-slit diffraction Equipment: rulers computer with web browser The following page is a diagram of a single sl ...

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Exercise 12F: Diffraction of Light Equipment: slit patterns, lasers, straight-filament bulbs station 1 You have a mask with a bu ...

a/In 1980, the continental U.S. got its first taste of active volcanism in recent memory with the eruption of Mount St. Helens. ...

energy, instead of being spread out over eons, would all be released at one instant, blowing our whole planet to Kingdom Come.^1 ...

eliminated by natural selection. Doubters of evolution often consider only the first point, about the randomness of natural vari ...

correlated. If they have been playing a slot machine all day, they are convinced that it is “getting ready to pay,” and they do ...

b/Normalization: the proba- bility of picking land plus the probability of picking water adds up to 1. has ever succeeded in det ...

Foundations of probability 1.Positivity: Probabilities are positive. Normalization: The total probability is 1. Additivity: Mut ...