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Homework Problems Physics 132: Section 10

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10 Three models of light

10.1 The ray model of light

Problem name  Type  Features  Threads  Use 
1. The microscope {*}    
   
2. Where can you see the bulb? {*}        
3. Who sees what? {*}        
4. The camera and the slide projector {*}        
5. Mirrors and lenses {*}        
6. The diverging lens {*}        
7. The half lens {*}        
8. Alice and the looking glass          
9. A bigger lens          
10. A fishy lens {*}        
11. Where's the image?          
12. The world in a spoon {*}        
13. Possible mirrors {*}        
14. On the mirror          
15. The lit/unlit bulb  {*}        
16. Alice and Aslan {*}        
17. Find your focus {*}        
18. TV vs Mirror {*}        
19. Looking into a mirror ball         
20. Retinal display {*}        
21. Puzzling with mirrors {*}        
22. Evolving an eyeball {*        
         
         

10.2 The wave model of light 

Problem name  Type  Features  Threads  Use 
1. What happens if a double slit winks        
2. Changing interference {*        
3. Representing an interference pattern {*        
4. Changing double slits {*        
5. Failure of the ray model         
6. Bobbing boats         
7. Interfering atoms {*}        
8. X-ray crystallography {*        
9. One and two slit patterns {*}        
10. Detecting gravitational waves         
         
         
         

10.3 The photon model of light 

Problem name  Type  Features  Threads  Use 
1. Flame test {*}
       
2. Photon transitions {*}        
3. Photons in biology {*}        
4. Fluorescence examples {*        
         

10.4 Color and light

Problem name  Type  Features  Threads  Use 
1. Intensity of light in media - Beer's Law {*}
 
 
   
2. What color is it underwater    
   
3. Measuring the speed of light a la Galileo  
       
4. Speed of light and the GPS system {*}        
5. Bizarre behavior with light {*}        
6. Boiling water in a microwave          
7. Laser eye surgery  {*}        
8. Insolation of the Earth {*        
         
         

10.5 The interaction of light with matter 

Problem name  Type  Features  Threads  Use 
1. Discrete state emission and absorption {*}
       
2. Breaking up is hard to do (*)        
3. Modeling color - chromophores {*}        
4. Snell's law for ultrasound {*}        
5. X-ray crystallography {*}        
6. Why do we see in the visible?         

 

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