UNIVERSITY PHYSICS VOL.3 (OER)17th EditionOpenStax Publisher: XANEDU PUBLISHINGISBN: 9781506698250
UNIVERSITY PHYSICS VOL.3 (OER)
Solutions for UNIVERSITY PHYSICS VOL.3 (OER)
Problem 1.1CYU:
Check Your Understanding Table 1.1 shows that ethanol and fresh water have very similar indices of...Problem 1.2CYU:
Check Your Understanding In Table 1.1, the solid with the next highest index of refraction after...Problem 1.3CYU:
Check Your Understanding At the surface between air and water, light rays can go from air to water...Problem 1.4CYU:
Check Your Understanding In the preceding example. how much distance inside the block of flint glass...Problem 1.5CYU:
Check Your Understanding in Example 1.6, we had n1n2. If n2were decreased such thatn1n2and the speed...Problem 1.6CYU:
Check Your Understanding Although we did no specify the direction in Example 1.7, let’s say the...Problem 1.7CYU:
Check Your Understanding What happens at Brewster’s angle if the original incident light is already...Problem 3CQ:
Does the fact that the light flash from lightning reaches you before its sound prove that the speed...Problem 4CQ:
Speculate as to s1at physical process might be responsible for light traveling more slowly in a...Problem 5CQ:
Using the law of reflection, explain how powder takes the shine off of a person’s nose. What is the...Problem 6CQ:
Diffusion by reflection from a rough surface is described in this chapter. Light can also be...Problem 7CQ:
Will 1igt change direction toward or away from the perpendicular when it goes from air to water?...Problem 8CQ:
Exp1ain why an object in water always appears to be at a depth shallower than it actually is?Problem 9CQ:
Explain why a person’s legs appear very short when wading in a pool. Justify your explanation with a...Problem 11CQ:
A ring with a colorless gemstone is dropped into water.The gemstone becomes invisible when...Problem 12CQ:
The most common type of mirage is an illusion that light from faraway objects is reflected by a pool...Problem 13CQ:
How can you use total internal reflection to estimate the index of refraction of a medium?Problem 14CQ:
Is it possible that total internal reflection plays a role in rainbows? Explain in terms of indices...Problem 15CQ:
A high-quality diamond may be quite clear and colorless, transmitting all visible wavelengths with...Problem 16CQ:
How do wave effects depend on the size of the object with which the wave interacts? For example, why...Problem 17CQ:
Does Huygens’s principle apply to all types of waves?Problem 18CQ:
If diffraction is observed for some phenomenon, it is evidence that the phenomenon is a wave. Does...Problem 19CQ:
Can a sound wave in air be polarized? Explain.Problem 20CQ:
No light passes through two perfect polarizing filters with perpendicular axes. However, if a third...Problem 21CQ:
Explain what happens to the energy carried by light that it is dimmed by passing it through two...Problem 22CQ:
When particles scattering light are much smaller than its wavelength, the amount of scattering is...Problem 24CQ:
When light is reflected at Brewster’s angle from a smooth surface, it Is 100’ polarized parallel to...Problem 25CQ:
If you lie on a beach looking at the water with yow head tipped slightly sideways, your polarized...Problem 26P:
What is the speed of light in water? In glycerine?Problem 27P:
What is the speed of light in air? In crown glass?Problem 28P:
Calculate the index of refraction for a medium in which the speed of light is 2.120108m/s , and...Problem 30P:
There was a major collision of an asteroid with the Moon in medieval times. It was described by...Problem 31P:
Components of some computers communicate with each other through optical fibers having an index of...Problem 32P:
Compare the time it takes for light to travel 1000 m on the surface of Earth and in outer space.Problem 34P:
Suppose a man stands in front of a mm-or as show below. His eyes are 1.65 m above the floor and the...Problem 35P:
Show that when light reflects from two mirrors that meet each other at a right angle, the outgoing...Problem 36P:
On the Moon’s surface, lunar astronauts placed a comet reflector, off which a laser beam Is...Problem 37P:
A flat mirror Is neither converging nor diverging. To prove this, consider two rays originating from...Problem 38P:
A light beam in air has an angle of incidence of 35° at the surface of a glass plate. What are the...Problem 39P:
A light beam in air is incident on the surface of a pond, making an angle of 20° with respect to the...Problem 40P:
When a light ray crosses from water into glass, it emerges at an angle of 30with respect to the...Problem 41P:
A pencil flashlight submerged in water sends a light beam toward the surface at an angle of...Problem 42P:
Light rays from the Sun make a 30° angle to the vertical when seen from below the surface of a body...Problem 43P:
The path of a light beam in air goes from an angle of incidence of 35° to an angle of refraction of...Problem 44P:
A scuba diver training in a pool looks at his instructor as shown below. What angle does the ray...Problem 45P:
(a) Using information in the preceding problem, find the height of the instructor’s head above the...Problem 46P:
Verify that the critical angle for light going from water to air is 48.6°, as discussed at the end...Problem 47P:
(a) At the end of Example 1.4, it was stated that the critical angle for light going from diamond to...Problem 49P:
At that minimum angle will you get total internal reflection of light traveling in water and...Problem 50P:
Suppose you are using total internal reflection to make an efficient corner reflector. If there is...Problem 51P:
You can determine the index of refraction of a substance by determining its critical angle. (a) What...Problem 52P:
A ray of light, emitted beneath the surface of an unknown liquid with air above it, undergoes total...Problem 53P:
Light rays fall normally on the vertical surface of the glass prism (n=1.50)shown below. (a) What is...Problem 54P:
(a) What is the ratio of the speed of red light to violet light in diamond, based on Table 1.2? (b)...Problem 55P:
A beam of white light goes from air into water at an incident angle of 75.0. At what angles are the...Problem 56P:
By how much do the critical angles for red (660 nm) and violet (410 nm) light differ in a diamond...Problem 57P:
(a) A narrow beam of light containing yellow (580 nm) and green (550 nm) wavelengths goes from...Problem 58P:
A parallel beam of light containing orange (610 nm) and violet (4.10wm) wavelengths goes from fused...Problem 59P:
A ray of 610-nm light goes from air into fused quartz at an incident angle of 55.0. At what incident...Problem 60P:
A narrow beam of light containing red (660 nm) and blue (470 nm) wavelengths travels from air...Problem 61P:
A narrow beam of white light enters a prism made of crown glass at a 45.0incident angle, as shown...Problem 62P:
What angle is needed between the direction of polarized light and the axis of a polarizing filter to...Problem 63P:
The angle been the axes of two polarizing filters is 45.00. By how much does the second filter...Problem 64P:
Two polarizing sheets P1 and P2 are placed together with their transmission axes oriented at an...Problem 65P:
Suppose that in the preceding problem the light incident on P1 is unpolarized. At the determined...Problem 66P:
If you have completely polarized light of intensity 150 W/m2 , what will its intensity be after...Problem 67P:
What angle would the axis of a polarizing filter need to make with the direction of polarized light...Problem 68P:
At the end of Example 17, it was stated that the intensity of polarized light is reduced to 90.0% of...Problem 69P:
Show that if you have three polarizing filters, with the second at an angle of 45.0to the first and...Problem 70P:
Three polarizing sheets are placed together such that the transmission axis of the second sheet is...Problem 71P:
In order to rotate the polarization axis of a beam of linearly polarized light by 90.00, a student...Problem 72P:
It is found that when light traveling in water falls on a plastic block, Brewster’s angle is 50.0°....Problem 74P:
What is Brewster’s angle for light traveling in water that is reflected from crown glass?Problem 75P:
A scuba diver sees light reflected from the water’s surface. At what angle relative to the water’s...Problem 76AP:
From his measurements, Roemer estimated that it took 22 mm for light to travel a distance equal to...Problem 77AP:
Cornu performed Fizeau’s measurement of the speed of light using a wheel of diameter 4.00 cm that...Problem 78AP:
Suppose you have an unknown clear substance immersed in water, and you wish to identify it by...Problem 79AP:
Shown below is a ray of light going from air through crown glass into water, such as going into a...Problem 80AP:
Considering the previous problem, show that 3is the same as it would be if the second medium were...Problem 81AP:
At what angle is light inside crown glass completely polarized when reflected from water, as in a...Problem 82AP:
Light reflected at 55.6° from a window is completely polarized. What is the window’s index of...Problem 83AP:
(a) Light reflected at 62.5° from a gemstone in a ring is completely polarized. Can the gem be a...Problem 84AP:
If bis Brewster’s angle for light reflected from the top of an interface between two substances, and...Problem 85AP:
Unreasonable results Suppose light travels from water to another substance, with an angle of...Problem 86AP:
Unreasonable results Light traveling from water to a gemstone strikes the surface at an angle of...Problem 87AP:
If a polarizing filter reduces the intensity of polarized light to 50.0% of its original value, by...Problem 88AP:
Suppose you put on two pairs of polarizing sunglasses with their axes at an angle of 15.0 . . How...Problem 89AP:
(a) On a day when the intensity of sunlight is 1.00kW/m2 , a circular lens 0.200 m in diameter...Problem 90CP:
Light shows staged with lasers use moving mirrors to swing beams and create colorful effects. Show...Problem 91CP:
Consider sunlight entering Earth’s atmosphere at sunrise and sunset—that is, at 90.0incident angle....Problem 92CP:
A light ray entering an optical fiber surrounded by air is first refracted and then reflected as...Problem 93CP:
A light ray falls on the left face of a prism (see below) at the angle of incidence for which the...Problem 94CP:
If the apex angle in the previous problem is 20.0° and n = 1.50, what is the value of a?Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
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