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Problem 2CQ:
Why is the average radiation pressure on a perfectly reflecting surface twice as great as on a...Problem 4CQ:
How does the refraction of light account for the twinkling of starlight? (Hint: The earths...Problem 5CQ:
Light requires about 8 min to travel from the sun to the earth. Is it delayed appreciably by the...Problem 7CQ:
A student claimed that, because of atmospheric refraction, the sun can be seen after it has set and...Problem 8CQ:
If you look at your pet fish through the corner of your aquarium, you may see a double image of the...Problem 9CQ:
How could you determine the direction of the polarizing axis of a single polarizer? (Hint: Is there...Problem 10CQ:
In three-dimensional movies, two images are projected on the screen, and the viewers wear special...Problem 12CQ:
When light is incident on an interface between two materials, the angle of the refracted ray depends...Problem 1MCP:
A ray is traveling in material a when it reaches an interface with material b, where nb na. If the...Problem 2MCP:
Unpolarized light with an original intensity I0 passes through two ideal polarizers having their...Problem 4MCP:
If a sinusoidal electromagnetic wave with intensity 10 W/m2 has an electric field of Amplitude E,...Problem 5MCP:
A plane electromagnetic wave is traveling vertically downward with its magnetic field pointing...Problem 6MCP:
A ray of light going from one material into another follows the path shown in Figure 23.45. What can...Problem 7MCP:
Which of the following statements about radio waves, infrared radiation, and x rays are correct?...Problem 8MCP:
Two lasers each produce 2 mW beams. The beam of laser B is wider, having twice the cross-sectional...Problem 9MCP:
A ray of light follows the path shown in Figure 23.46 as it reaches the boundary between two...Problem 10MCP:
A light beam has a wavelength of 300 nm in a material of refractive index 1.5. In a material of...Problem 1P:
When a solar flare erupts on the surface of the sun, how many minutes after it occurs does its light...Problem 2P:
The microprocessor in a modern laptop computer runs on a 2.5 GHz clock. Assuming that the electrical...Problem 3P:
(a) How much time does it take light to travel from the moon to the earth, a distance of 384,000 km?...Problem 4P:
A geostationary communications satellite orbits the earth directly above the equator at an altitude...Problem 9P:
Visible light. The wavelength of visible light ranges from 400 nm to 700 nm. Find the corresponding...Problem 11P:
Medical x rays. Medical x rays are taken with electromagnetic waves having a wavelength around 0.10...Problem 16P:
Laboratory lasers. HeNe lasers are often used in physics demonstrations. They produce light of...Problem 18P:
High-energy cancer treatment. Scientists are working on a new technique to kill cancer cells by...Problem 20P:
The intensity at a certain distance from a bright light source is 6.00 W/m2. Find the radiation...Problem 21P:
A sinusoidal electromagnetic wave from a radio station passes perpendicularly through an open window...Problem 24P:
A sinusoidal electromagnetic wave emitted by a cellular phone has a wavelength of 35.4 cm and an...Problem 25P:
Two plane mirrors intersect at right angles. A laser beam strikes the first of them at a point 11.5...Problem 26P:
Two plane mirrors A and 8 intersect at a 45 angle. Three rays of light leave point P (see Figure...Problem 27P:
Prove that when a ray of light travels at any angle into the corner formed by two mirrors placed at...Problem 28P:
A light beam travels at 1.94 108 m/s in quartz. The wavelength of the light in quartz is 355 nm....Problem 30P:
Light with a frequency of 5.80 1014 Hz travels in a block of glass that has an index of refraction...Problem 32P:
Light inside the eye. The vitreous humor, a transparent, gelatinous fluid that fills most of the...Problem 34P:
A 1 55-m-tall fisherman stands at the edge of a lake, being watched by a suspicious trout who is...Problem 35P:
A light ray passes through a rectangular slab of transparent material having index of refraction n =...Problem 36P:
A glass plate having parallel faces and a refractive index of 1.58 lies at the bottom of a liquid of...Problem 37P:
A beam of light in air makes an angle of 47.5 with the surface (not the normal) of a glass plate...Problem 38P:
Reversibility of rays. Ray 1 of light in medium a (see Figure 23.51) strikes the surface at 51.0...Problem 39P:
You (height of your eyes above the water. 1.75 m) are standing 2.00 m from the edge of a 2 50-m-deep...Problem 40P:
A parallel-sided plate of glass having a refractive index of 1.60 is in contact with the surface of...Problem 41P:
As shown in Figure 23.53, a layer of water covers a slab of material X in a beaker. A ray of light...Problem 42P:
A ray of light in diamond (index of refraction 2.42) is incident on an interface with air. What is...Problem 43P:
The critical angle for total internal reflection at a liquidair interface is 42.5. (a) If a ray of...Problem 44P:
A ray of light is traveling in a glass cube that is totally immersed in water. You find that if the...Problem 45P:
Light is incident along the normal to face AB of a prism that has a refractive index n and an angle ...Problem 46P:
Light pipe. Light enters a solid tube made of plastic having an index of refraction of 1.60. The...Problem 48P:
A beam of light strikes a sheet of glass at an angle of 57.0 with the normal in air You observe that...Problem 49P:
The table gives the index of refraction of fused silica glass as a function of wavelength (in...Problem 50P:
Use the graph in Figure 23.29 for silicate flint glass. (a) What are the indices of refraction of...Problem 51P:
The indices of refraction for violet light ( = 400 nm) and red light ( = 700 nm) in diamond are 2.46...Problem 52P:
Unpolarized light with intensity I0 is incident on an ideal polarizing filter. The emerging light...Problem 53P:
Unpolarized light is incident on two ideal polarizing filters. The second filters axis is rotated...Problem 54P:
A beam of unpolarized light of intensity I0 passes through a series of ideal polarizing filters with...Problem 55P:
Three ideal polarizing filters are stacked, with the polarizing axes of the second and third filters...Problem 56P:
Light of original intensity I0 passes through two ideal polarizing filters having their polarizing...Problem 57P:
The polarizing angle for light in air incident on a glass plate is 57.6. What is the index of...Problem 58P:
A beam of polarized light passes through a polarizing filter. When the angle between the polarizing...Problem 59P:
A beam of unpolarized light in air is incident at an angle of 54.5 (with respect to the normal) on a...Problem 60P:
Plane-polarized light passes through two polarizers whose axes are oriented at 35.0 to each other....Problem 61GP:
The energy flow to the earth from sunlight is about 1.4 kW/m2. (a) Find the maximum values of the...Problem 63GP:
A powerful searchlight shines on a man. The mans cross-sectional area is 0.500 m2 perpendicular to...Problem 67GP:
Solar sail. NASA is doing research on the concept of solar sailing. A solar sailing craft uses a...Problem 68GP:
A thick layer of oil is floating on the surface of water in a tank. A beam of light traveling in the...Problem 70GP:
A light ray in air strikes the right-angle prism shown in Figure 23.59. This ray consists of two...Problem 71GP:
A ray of light is incident in air on a block of a transparent solid whose index of refraction is n....Problem 72GP:
A light beam is directed parallel to the axis of a hollow cylindrical tube. When the tube contains...Problem 73GP:
Heart sonogram. Physicians use high-frequency (f = 1 MHz to 5 MHz) sound waves, called ultrasound,...Problem 74GP:
A light ray refracts through a glass block having a thickness t and index of refraction 1.5. As...Problem 75GP:
A beaker with a mirrored bottom is filled with a liquid whose index of refraction is 1.63. A light...Problem 76GP:
A ray of light traveling in a block of glass (n = 1.52) is incident on the top surface at an angle...Problem 77GP:
In a physics lab, light with wavelength 490 nm travels in air from a laser to a photocell in 17.0...Problem 78GP:
The refractive index of a certain glass is 1.66. For what angle of incidence is light that is...Problem 79GP:
A thin layer of ice (n = 1.309) floats on the surface of water (n = 1.333) in a bucket. A ray of...Problem 80GP:
Optical activity of biological molecules. Many biologically important molecules are optically...Problem 81PP:
Passage Problems Safe exposure to electromagnetic waves. There have been many studies of the effects...Problem 82PP:
Doubling the frequency of a wave in the range of 25 Hz to 3 kHz represents what change in the...Problem 83PP:
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