The Nature of Light Study Guide
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Due Date
Questions 1-13 p 301-2
2/19
Problems 1, 3, 5, 7 p 313-14
2/19
Spectra lab report
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For the test over light you should know:
the meaning of the terms
luminous, opaque, transparent, translucent, photon, coherent light, population inversion, monochromatic, luminous, illuminated, umbra, penumbra, incandescent, hologram, stimulated emission, photometer, interferometer, luminous flux, luminous intensity.
The two theories of the nature of light, their strengths and weaknesses and their main proponents
the modern view of the nature of light.
The contributions of Galileo, Roemer, Michelson, Maxwell, Einstein, Planck, Rutherford, de Broglie, Huygens, Newton, Foucalt covered in this chapter.
what the photoelectric effect is, and the three laws of photoelectric emission.
Huygen's principle.
the speed of light.
how light intensity is affected by distance from the source.
the principles behind laser operation.
how frequency and photon energy are related.
the 2 componenets of electromagnetic waves and how they are situated.
the order of the major groups in the e-m spectrum (in terms of frequency).
the type of spectrum emitted by gas discharge tubes.
the series names for the hydrogen spectrum.
And be able to calculate:
the wavelength of an e-m wave if given the frequency.
the wavelength of light given the photon energy.
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