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Chapter 35, Problem 35.1OQ
In each of the following situations, a wave passes through an opening in an absorbing wall. Rank the situations in order from the one in which the wave is best described by the ray approximation to the one ill which the wave coming through the opening spreads out most nearly equally in all directions in the hemisphere beyond the wall, (a) The sound of a low whistle at 1 kHz passes through a doorway 1 m wide, (b) Red light passes through the pupil of your eye. (c) Blue light passes through the pupil of your eye. (d) The wave broadcast by an AM radio station passes through a doorway 1 m wide, (e) An x-ray passes through the space between bones in your elbow Joint.
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Physics for Scientists and Engineers, Volume 1, Chapters 1-22
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Ch. 35 - The index of refraction for water is about 43....Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.7OQCh. 35 - What is the order of magnitude of the time...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.9OQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.10OQCh. 35 - A light ray navels from vacuum into a slab of...Ch. 35 - Suppose you find experimentally that two colors of...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.13OQCh. 35 - Which color light refracts the most when entering...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.15OQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.1CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.2CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.3CQCh. 35 - The F-117A stealth fighter (Fig. CQ35.4) is...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.5CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.6CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.7CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.8CQCh. 35 - A laser beam passing through a non homogeneous...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.10CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.11CQCh. 35 - (a) Under what conditions is a mirage formed?...Ch. 35 - Figure CQ35.13 shows a pencil partially immersed...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.14CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.15CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.16CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.17CQCh. 35 - Prob. 35.1PCh. 35 - The Apollo 11 astronauts set up a panel of...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.3PCh. 35 - As a result of his observations, Ole Roemer...Ch. 35 - The wavelength of red helium-neon laser light in...Ch. 35 - An underwater scuba diver sees the Sun at an...Ch. 35 - A ray of light is incident on a flat surface of a...Ch. 35 - Figure P35.8 shows a refracted light beam in...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.9PCh. 35 - A dance hall is built without pillars and with a...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.11PCh. 35 - A ray of light strikes a flat block of glass (n =...Ch. 35 - A prism that has an apex angle of 50.0 is made of...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.14PCh. 35 - A light ray initially in water enters a...Ch. 35 - A laser beam is incident at an angle of 30.0 from...Ch. 35 - A ray of light strikes the midpoint of one face of...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.18PCh. 35 - When you look through a window, by what time...Ch. 35 - Two flat, rectangular mirrors, both perpendicular...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.21PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.22PCh. 35 - Two light pulses are emitted simultaneously from a...Ch. 35 - Light passes from air into flint glass at a...Ch. 35 - A laser beam with vacuum wavelength 632.8 nm is...Ch. 35 - A narrow beam of ultrasonic waves reflects off the...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.27PCh. 35 - A triangular glass prism with apex angle 60.0 has...Ch. 35 - Light of wavelength 700 nm is incident on the face...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.30PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.31PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.32PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.33PCh. 35 - A submarine is 300 m horizontally from the shore...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.35PCh. 35 - The index of refraction for red light in water is...Ch. 35 - A light beam containing red and violet wavelengths...Ch. 35 - The speed of a water wave is described by v=gd,...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.39PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.40PCh. 35 - A glass optical fiber (n = 1.50) is submerged in...Ch. 35 - For 589-nm light, calculate the critical angle for...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.43PCh. 35 - A triangular glass prism with apex angle has an...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.45PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.46PCh. 35 - Consider a common mirage formed by superheated air...Ch. 35 - A room contains air in which the speed of sound is...Ch. 35 - An optical fiber has an index of refraction n and...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.50PCh. 35 - Prob. 35.51APCh. 35 - Consider a horizontal interface between air above...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.53APCh. 35 - Why is the following situation impossible? While...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.55APCh. 35 - How many times will the incident beam in Figure...Ch. 35 - When light is incident normally on the interface...Ch. 35 - Refer to Problem 37 for its description of the...Ch. 35 - A light ray enters the atmosphere of the Earth and...Ch. 35 - A light ray enters the atmosphere of a planet and...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.61APCh. 35 - Prob. 35.62APCh. 35 - Prob. 35.63APCh. 35 - Prob. 35.64APCh. 35 - The light beam in Figure P35.65 strikes surface 2...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.66APCh. 35 - A 4.00-m-long pole stands vertically in a...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.68APCh. 35 - A 4.00-m-long pole stands vertically in a...Ch. 35 - As sunlight enters the Earths atmosphere, it...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.71APCh. 35 - A ray of light passes from air into water. For its...Ch. 35 - As shown in Figure P35.73, a light ray is incident...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.74APCh. 35 - Prob. 35.75APCh. 35 - Prob. 35.76APCh. 35 - Prob. 35.77APCh. 35 - Students allow a narrow beam of laser light to...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.79APCh. 35 - Figure P34.50 shows a top view of a square...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.81CPCh. 35 - Prob. 35.82CPCh. 35 - Prob. 35.83CPCh. 35 - Pierre de Fermat (16011665) showed that whenever...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.85CPCh. 35 - Suppose a luminous sphere of radius R1 (such as...Ch. 35 - Prob. 35.87CP
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