Textbook: Glencoe Ch 16
1: You are responsible to read the entire chapter pg 441-437
2: Packet due next monday:
pg 436 practice problems #1-6
pg 447 practice problems# 14-17

Key concepts:

1. Wave nature of light, E&M fields, E&M spectrum (see post http://math-science-resources.com/physics-unit-12-the-nature-of-light/ )
2. Luminous flux, illuminance (be able to calculate), illumination
3. Relativistic Doppler effect

There will be a short quiz next Monday – Tues.

 

Part 2: Chapter 17 – to be assigned later

Learning objectives:

1. Reflection, Huygen’s principle of wavelets.
   1. Excel project due following monday by email
2. Specular and Lambertian reflectance, scattering
   1. effect of surface roughness on reflectance

 

Part 3: The peculiar properties of light

1. Refraction (Huygen’s model)
2. Diffraction
   1. single slit (drawing and calculating)
   2. double slit
   3. Fraunhofer interference