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:
- Wave nature of light, E&M fields, E&M spectrum (see post http://math-science-resources.com/physics-unit-12-the-nature-of-light/ )
- Luminous flux, illuminance (be able to calculate), illumination
- Relativistic Doppler effect
There will be a short quiz next Monday – Tues.
Part 2: Chapter 17 – to be assigned later
Learning objectives:
- Reflection, Huygen’s principle of wavelets.
- Excel project due following monday by email
- Specular and Lambertian reflectance, scattering
- effect of surface roughness on reflectance
Part 3: The peculiar properties of light
- Refraction (Huygen’s model)
- Diffraction
- single slit (drawing and calculating)
- double slit
- Fraunhofer interference