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Light Physics 100 Chapt 17
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Galileo’s attempt to measure the speed of light
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Galilean moons
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Ole Roemer
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Eclipses of Jupiter’s moons Sun Earth Jupiter Io Light from eclipse #1 travels this far
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Eclipses of Jupiter’s moons Sun Jupiter Io Light from the next eclipse has to travel this much farther Earth Measured time between eclipses is a little longer than actual time
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6 months later Sun E arth Jupiter Io Light from eclipse #1 travels this far
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6 months + later Sun Jupiter Io Light from the next eclipse travels a distance that is this much shorter Earth Measured time between eclipses is a little shorter than actual time
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Reflections
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Reflection from a flat surface angle of incidence = angle of reflection
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Image
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Wall mirror left hand right hand
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Speed of light is slower Refraction Speed of light is faster air h2o
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Refraction
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where should you aim? At the fish? Above it? Below it?
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answer
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“Broken stick”
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Broken pencil
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Dispersion
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Dispersion in a water droplet
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rainbow Sun
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Wave nature of light
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Interference from two wave sources
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Light thru a single narrow slit central bright stripe wider than shadow of the slit!
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Light thru a narrower single slit central bright stripe gets wider!
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Single slit “diffraction pattern” “Intensity pattern”
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Light thru two narrow closely spaced slits Diffraction pattern with dark stripes
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Two slit interference pattern “Intensity pattern”
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Bright stripes
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Dark stripes
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Two slits
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Single slit diffraction
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Single-slit interference
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Any aperture produces interference
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Two adjacent holes
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Move holes closer together
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Photo using IR light
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Human vision Visible light wavelengths 0.75x10 -6 m0.4x10 -6 m Human hair: Thickness = ~100 x 10 -6 m (100 m) Red blood cell: diameter = ~5 x 10 -6 m (5 m) hemoglobin molecule: ~0.01 x 10 -6 m (0.01 m) No way! (albeit with a microscope) OK!
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Rule of thumb To view an object using a wave, the wavelength of the wave must be shorter than the dimensions of the features that you want to examine.
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“proof” that light is a wave With 2 slits open no light goes here Block off one slit Now light can go here
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Somehow the light going through one slit knows whether or not the other slit is open or closed This is possible for a wave, which is extended in space, but not for a localized particle
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Doppler effect applies to light also
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Red-shift --- Blue shift
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