Solutions for UNIVERSITY PHYSICS,VOL.3 (OER)
Problem 3.1CYU:
Check Your Understanding In the system used in the preceding examples, at what angles are the first...Problem 3.2CYU:
Check Your Understanding Going further with Example 3.4, what are the next two thicknesses of soap...Problem 3.3CYU:
Check Your Understanding Although m, the number of fringes observed, is an integer, which is often...Problem 1CQ:
Young’s double-slit experiment breaks a single light beam into two sources. Would the same pattern...Problem 2CQ:
Is it possible to create a experimental setup in which there is only destructive interference?...Problem 3CQ:
Why won’t two small sodium lamps, held close together, produce an interference pattern on a distant...Problem 4CQ:
Suppose you use the same double slit to perform Young’s double-slit experiment in air and then...Problem 5CQ:
Why is monochromatic light used in the double slit experiment? What would happen if white light were...Problem 6CQ:
What effect does increasing the wedge angle have on the spacing of interference fringes? If the...Problem 7CQ:
How is the difference in paths taken by two originally in-phase light waves related to whether they...Problem 8CQ:
Is there a phase change in the light reflected from either surface of a contact lens floating on a...Problem 9CQ:
In placing a sample on a microscope slide, a glass cover is placed over a water drop on the glass...Problem 10CQ:
Answer the above question if the fluid between the two pieces of crown glass is carbon disulfide.Problem 11CQ:
While contemplating the food value of a slice of ham, you notice a rainbow of color reflected from...Problem 12CQ:
An inventor notices that a soap bubble is dark at its thinnest and realizes that destructive...Problem 13CQ:
A nonreflective coating like the one described in Example 3.3 works ideally for a single wavelength...Problem 14CQ:
Why is it much more difficult to see interference fringes for light reflected from a thick piece of...Problem 15CQ:
Describe how a Michelson interferometer can be used to measure the index of refraction of a gas...Problem 16P:
At what angle is the first-order maximum for 450-nm wavelength blue light falling on double slits...Problem 17P:
Calculate the angle for the third-order maximum of 580-nm wavelength yellow light falling on double...Problem 18P:
What is the separation between two slits for which 610-nm orange light has its first maximum at an...Problem 19P:
Find the distance between two slits that produces the first minimum for 410-nm violet light at an...Problem 20P:
Calculate the wavelength of light that has its third minimum at an angle of 30.0° when falling on...Problem 21P:
What is the wavelength of light falling on double slits separated by 2.00 m if the third-order...Problem 23P:
What is the highest-order maximum for 400-nm light falling on double slits separated by 25.0 m?Problem 24P:
Find the largest wavelength of light falling on double slits separated by 1.20 m for which there is...Problem 25P:
What is the smallest separation between two slits that will produce a second-order maximum for...Problem 26P:
(a) What is the smallest separation between two slits that will produce a second-order maximum for...Problem 27P:
(a) If the first-order maximum for monochromatic light falling on a double slit is at an angle of...Problem 28P:
Shown below is a double slit located a distance x from a screen, with the distance from the center...Problem 29P:
Using the result of the preceding problem, (a) calculate the distance between fringes for 633-nm...Problem 30P:
Using the result of the problem two problems prior, find the wavelength of light that produces...Problem 31P:
In a double-slit experiment, the fifth maximum is 2.8 cm from the central maximum on a screen that...Problem 32P:
The source in Young’s experiment emits at two wavelengths. On the viewing screen, the fourth maximum...Problem 33P:
If 500-nm and 650-nm light illuminates two slits that are separated by 0.50 mm, how far apart are...Problem 34P:
Red light of wavelength of 700 nm falls on a double slit separated by 400 nm. (a) At what angle is...Problem 35P:
Ten narrow slits are equally spaced 0.25 mm apart and illuminated with yellow light of wavelength...Problem 36P:
The width of bright fringes can be calculated as the separation between the two adjacent dark...Problem 37P:
For a three-slit interference pattern, find the ratio of the peak intensities of a secondary maximum...Problem 38P:
What is the angular width of the central fringe of the interference pattern of (a) 20 slits...Problem 39P:
A soap bubble is 100 nm thick and illuminated by white light incident perpendicular to its surface....Problem 40P:
An oil slick on water is 120 nm thick and illuminated by white light incident perpendicular to its...Problem 41P:
Calculate the minimum thickness of an oil slick on water that appears blue when illuminated by white...Problem 42P:
Find the minimum thickness of a soap bubble that appears red when illuminated by white light...Problem 43P:
A film of soapy water (n=1.33) on top of a plastic cutting board has a thickness of 233 nm. What...Problem 44P:
What are the three smallest non-zero thicknesses of soapy water (n=1.33) on Plexiglas if it appears...Problem 45P:
Suppose you have a lens system that is to be used primarily for 700-nm red light. What is the second...Problem 46P:
(a) As a soap bubble thins it becomes dark, because the path length difference becomes small...Problem 47P:
To save money on making military aircraft invisible to radar, an inventor decides to coat them with...Problem 48P:
A Michelson interferometer has two equal arms. A mercury light of wavelength 546 nm is used for the...Problem 49P:
What is the distance moved by the traveling mirror of a Michelson interferometer that corresponds to...Problem 50P:
When the traveling mirror of a Michelson interferometer is moved 2.40105 m, 90 fringes pass by a...Problem 51P:
In a Michelson interferometer, light of wavelength 632.8 nm from a He-Ne laser is used. When one of...Problem 52P:
A chamber 5.0 cm long with flat, parallel windows at the ends is placed in one arm of a Michelson...Problem 53AP:
For 600-nm wavelength light and a slit separation of 0.12 mm, what are the angular positions of the...Problem 54AP:
If the light source in the preceding problem is changed, the angular position of the third maximum...Problem 55AP:
Red light (=710.nm) illuminates double slits separated by a distance d=0.150 mm. The screen and the...Problem 56AP:
Two sources as in phase and emit waves with =0.42 m. Determine whether constructive or destructive...Problem 57AP:
Two slits 4.0106 m apart are illuminated by light of wavelength 600 nm. What is the highest order...Problem 58AP:
Suppose that the highest order fringe that can be observed is the eighth in a double-slit experiment...Problem 59AP:
The interference pattern of a He-Ne laser light (=632.9nm) passing through two slits 0.031 mm apart...Problem 60AP:
Young’s double-slit experiment is performed immersed in water (n=1.333) . The light source is a...Problem 61AP:
A double-slit experiment is to be set up so that the bright fringes appear 1.27 cm apart on a screen...Problem 62AP:
An effect analogous to two-slit interference can occur with sound waves, instead of light. In an...Problem 63AP:
A hydrogen gas discharge lamp emits visible light at four wavelengths, =410 , 434, 486, and 656 nm....Problem 64AP:
Monochromatic light of frequency 5.51014 Hz falls on 10 slits separated by 0.020 mm. What is the...Problem 65AP:
Eight slits equally separated by 0.149 mm is uniformly illuminated by a monochromatic light at =523...Problem 66AP:
Eight slits equally separated by 0.149 mm is uniformly illuminated by a monochromatic light at =523...Problem 67AP:
A transparent film of thickness 250 nm and index of refraction of 1.40 is surrounded by air. What...Problem 68AP:
An intensity minimum is found for 450 nm light transmitted through a transparent film (n=1.20) in...Problem 69AP:
A thin film with n=1.32 is surrounded by air. What is the minimum thickness of this film such that...Problem 70AP:
Repeat your calculation of the previous problem with the thin film placed on a flat glass (n=1.50)...Problem 71AP:
After a minor oil spill, a think film of oil (n=1.40) of thickness 450 nm floats on the water...Problem 72AP:
A microscope slide 10 cm long is separated from a glass plate at one end by a sheet of paper. As...Problem 73AP:
Suppose that the setup of the preceding problem is immersed in an unknown liquid. If 18 fringes per...Problem 74AP:
A thin wedge filled with air is produced when two flat glass plates are placed on top of one another...Problem 75AP:
Two identical pieces of rectangular plate glass are used to measure the thickness of a hair. The...Problem 76AP:
Two microscope slides made of glass are illuminated by monochromatic (=589nm) light incident...Problem 77AP:
A good quality camera “lens” is actually a system of lenses, rather than a single lens, but a side...Problem 78AP:
Constructive interference is observed from directly above an oil slick for wavelengths (in air) 440...Problem 79AP:
A soap bubble is blown outdoors. What colors (indicate by wavelengths) of the reflected sunlight are...Problem 80AP:
A Michelson interferometer with a He-Ne laser light source (=632.8nm) projects its interference...Problem 81AP:
An experimenter detects 251 fringes when the movable mirror in a Michelson interferometer is...Problem 82AP:
A Michelson interferometer is used to measure the wavelength of light put through it. When the...Problem 83AP:
A 5.08-cm-long rectangular glass chamber is inserted into one arm of a Michelson interferometer...Problem 84AP:
Into one arm of a Michelson interferometer, a plastic sheet of thickness 75 m is inserted, which...Problem 85AP:
The thickness of an aluminum foil is measured using a Michelson interferometer that has its movable...Problem 86AP:
The movable mirror of a Michelson interferometer is attached to one end of a thin metal rod of...Problem 87AP:
In a thermally stabilized lab, a Michelson interferometer is used to monitor the temperature to...Problem 88AP:
A 65-fringe shift results in a Michelson interferometer when a 42.0-µm film made of an unknown...Problem 89CP:
Determine what happens to the double-slit interference pattern if one of the slits is covered with a...Problem 90CP:
Fifty-one narrow slits are equally spaced and separated by 0.10 mm. The slits are illuminated by...Problem 91CP:
A film of oil on water will appear dark when it is very thin, because the path length difference...Problem 92CP:
Figure 3.14 shows two glass slides illuminated by monochromatic light incident perpendicularly. The...Problem 93CP:
Figure 3.14 shows two 7.50-cm-long glass slides illuminated by pure 589-nm wavelength light incident...Browse All Chapters of This Textbook
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