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- You may often refer to "blue sky" without considering why it has that color. The answer a physicist would give depends on what phenomena? Rayleigh scattering, that the power of the light scattered by fluctuations in density and very small particles is proportional to 1/λ4. Refraction of light that depends on wavelength Absorption by molecular oxygen Interference3. Write electric field expressions and Jones vectors for the following waves: (a) a linearly polarized wave traveling in the -x direction with the electric field vector making an angle of 40 degrees with the y axis, and (b) a left elliptically polarized wave traveling in the -y direction with the major axis in the z direction and 1.5 times the minor axis.A possible means for making an airplane invisible to radar is to coat the plane with an antireflective polymer. If radar waves have a wavelength of 3.00 cm and the index of refraction of the polymer is n = 1.50, how thick would you make the coating?
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