Simple Nature - Light and Matter

d/Probability distribution for the result of rolling a single die. e/Rolling two dice and adding them up. clude a book containin ...

f/A probability distribution for height of human adults (not real data). g/Example 1. h/The average of a proba- bility distribut ...

i/The full width at half maxi- mum (FWHM) of a probability distribution. bothering to draw the relevant bell curve for your new ...

the iodine concentrates in the thyroid tells the doctor about the health of the thyroid. If you ever undergo this procedure, som ...

hours. Since 8 hours is the amount of time required for half of the atoms to decay, it is known as the half-life, writtent 1 / 2 ...

j/Calibration of the^14 C dating method using tree rings and arti- facts whose ages were known from other methods. Redrawn from ...

the functionN(t) as N=N(0)e−t/τ, where τ = t 1 / 2 /ln 2 is shown in example 6 on p. 869 to be the average time of survival. The ...

13.1.5 Applications of calculus The area under the probability distribution is of course an in- tegral. If we call the random nu ...

Average lifetime example 6 You might think that the half-life would also be the average life- time of an atom, since half the at ...

k/In recent decades, a huge hole in the ozone layer has spread out from Antarctica. Left: November 1978. Right: November 1992 13 ...

passes into and back out of a medium, its frequency is unchanged, and although its wavelength is altered while it is in the medi ...

b/A wave is partially absorbed. c/A stream of particles is partially absorbed. d/Einstein and Seurat: twins separated at birth?S ...

e/Apparatus for observing the photoelectric effect. A beam of light strikes a capacitor plate inside a vacuum tube, and elec- tr ...

f/The hamster in her hamster ball is like an electron emerging from the metal (tiled kitchen floor) into the surrounding vacuum ...

g/A different way of study- ing the photoelectric effect. h/The quantity Es + e∆V in- dicates the energy of one photon. It is fo ...

Photons from a lightbulb example 7 .Roughly how many photons are emitted by a 100 watt lightbulb in 1 second? .People tend to re ...

of photons emitted by the transmitter per second, as in example 7, but that even by the time they spread out and reach the recei ...

13.2.3 Wave-particle duality How can light be both a particle and a wave? We are now ready to resolve this seeming contradiction ...

j/Bullets pass through a double slit. k/A water wave passes through a double slit. l/A single photon can go through both slits. ...

m/Example 10. interpretation of wave-particle duality is that the location of the photon-particle is random, but the probability ...