1 / 1

Conceptual Questions Chap. 22

Conceptual Questions Chap. 22.

cade
Télécharger la présentation

Conceptual Questions Chap. 22

An Image/Link below is provided (as is) to download presentation Download Policy: Content on the Website is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use and may not be sold / licensed / shared on other websites without getting consent from its author. Content is provided to you AS IS for your information and personal use only. Download presentation by click this link. While downloading, if for some reason you are not able to download a presentation, the publisher may have deleted the file from their server. During download, if you can't get a presentation, the file might be deleted by the publisher.

E N D

Presentation Transcript


  1. Conceptual Questions Chap. 22 The spectrum of the light sent back to you from a drop at the top of the rainbow arrives such that the red light strikes the eye while the violet light passes over your head. At the bottom of the bow, violet light arrives at your eye and red light is deviated toward the ground (see Figure 22.20). • Why does the arc of a rainbow appear with red on top and violet on the bottom? • Under what conditions is a mirage formed? On a hot day, what are we seeing when we observe a mirage water puddle on the road? • The level of water in a clear, colorless glass is easily observed with the naked eye. The level of liquid helium (which has an index of refraction close to that of air) in a clear glass vessel is extremely difficult to see with the naked eye. Explain. • Why does a diamond show flashes of color when observed under white light? A mirage occurs when light changes direction as it moves between batches of air having different indices of refraction, due to air having different densities at different temperatures. Two images are seen: one from a direct path from the object to you, and the second arriving by rays originally heading toward the ground but refracted to your eye. On a hot day, the Sun makes the surface of blacktop hot, so the air is hot directly above it, becoming cooler with increasing altitude. The “water” we see is an image of the blue sky. Shimmering occurs when the air changes in temperature. The index of refraction of water is quite different from air, while the index of refraction of liquid helium happens to be much closer to that of air. Consequently, light undergoes less refraction at the helium-air interface than it does at the water-air one. The diamond acts like a prism in dispersing the light into its spectral components.

More Related