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Physics Exam 3 Flashcards

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convex spherical mirror

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has a reflecting surface that bulges outward

-reflects rays that are parallel to its principal axis so they diverge

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spherical mirror

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has a spherical reflecting surface

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concave spherical mirror

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has a hollowed reflecting surface

-reflects rays that are parallel to its principal axis so that they pass through a point known as the focal point

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focal length

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distance from the surface of the mirror to the focal point

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paraxial rays

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rays that are rays that are close to the principal axis of a mirror

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spherical aberration

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blurred effect caused from rays that are farther from the axis

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mirror equation

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relates the object distance, image distance, and focal length
*focal length is positive for a concave mirror and negative for convex

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human eye

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forms a real, but inverted, image on the retina

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camera

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forms a real, but inverted, image on light-sensitive material

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focusing the eye

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  • focused by the ciliary muscles, which change the shape of the lens
  • process is known as accommodation
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focusing a camera

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  • focused by moving the lens closer to or farther away from the light-sensitive material
  • shape of the lens is unchanged
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near point

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  • the closest distance to which the eye can focus

- typical value is 25cm

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far point

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  • the greatest distance at which the eye can focus

- far point is infinity

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f-number

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relates the diameter of the aperture to the focal length

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nearsightedness

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a condition in which clear vision is restricted to a region relativly close to the eye

  • the far poinr is nor infinity
  • can be corrected with diverging lenses placed in front of eyes
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farsightedness

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  • person can see clearly only at a relatively large distance from the eye
  • the person’s near point is much farther from the eye
  • can be corrected by placing converging lenses in front of the eyes
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refractive power of a lens

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refers to its ability to bend light and is measured in diopters

  • the greater the magnitude of the refractive power, the more strongly the lens bends light
  • a positive refractive power indicates a converging lens
  • a negative refractive power indicates a diverging lens
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magnifying glass

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  • a converging lens

- works by allowing an object to be viewed at a distance less than the near-point distance

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compound microscope

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uses two lenses in combination to produce a magnified image

  1. an objective 2. eyepiece
    - object to be viewed is placed just outside the focal length of the objective
    - image formed by the objective lens is viewed by the eyepiece giving additional magnification
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telescope

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provides magnified views of distant objects using two lenses

  • the objective lens focuses the incoming light at its focal point
  • the eyepiece magnifies the image formed by the object
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length of a telescope

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the sum of the focal lengths of its two lenses

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reflecting telescope

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uses a mirror in pace of an objective lens

-the largest telescopes are reflectors

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lens aberration

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any deviation of a lens from ideal behavior

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spherical aberration

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parallel rays of light passing through a lens fail to go through a single focal point
-its related to the shape of a lens

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chromatic aberration

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results from dispersion withon a refracting material

-causes different colors to focus at different points

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superposition

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the addition of two or more waves to give a resultant wave

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superposed waves

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the result may be a wave of greater amplitude (constructive interference)
-or reduced ampliture (destructive interference)

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monochromatic light

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consists of waves with a single frequency and a single color

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coherent light

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light waves that maintain a constant phase relationship with one another

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incoherent light

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light waves in which the relative phases vary randomly with time

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Young’s two slit experiment

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light passing through two slits forms bright and dark interference “fringes”

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no phase change

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occurs when light is reflected from a region with a lower index of refraction

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180degree phase change

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occurs when light reflects from a region with a higher index of refraction, or from a solid surface

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air wedge

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formed when two plates of glass that touch on one end and have a small separation on the other end

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newton’s rings

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when a piece of glass with a spherical cross section is placed on a flat sheet of glass, the resulting interference fringes form a set of concentric circles known as newton’s rings

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thin films

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can produce colors in reflected light by eliminating other colors with destructive interference

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diffraction

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phenomenon when a wave encounters an obstacle, or passes through an opening, it changes direction

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single-slit diffraction

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when monochromatic light passes through a single-slit of width, it forms a diffraction pattern of alternating bright and dark fringes

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bright fringes

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located approximately halfway between successive dark fringes
-the central bright fringe is approximately twice as wide as the other bright fringes

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resolution

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refers to the ability of a visual system, like the eye or a camera, to distinguish closely spaced objects

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Rayleigh’s criterion (qualitiative statement)

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states the two objects become blurred together when the first dark fringe on one object’s diffraction pattern passes through the centere of the other object’s diffraction pattern

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Rayleight’s criterion (quantitative statement)

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states that if the angular separation between two objects is less than a certain minimum, they will appear to be a single object

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diffracting grating

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a large number of slits through which a beam of light can pass
-characterized by the number of lines or slits they have per centimeter (N)

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reflection gratings

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diffraction gratings can also be constructed from a reflecting surface with a large number of reflecting lines, like a CD or butterfly wing

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irridescence

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when white light shines on a reflecting grating, different colors in the light are reflecte at different angles
-the color effects produce in this way are referred to as irridescence

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idedal blackbody

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an object that absorbs all the light incident on it
-distribution of energy as a function of frequency within a blackbody is independent of the material from which the blackbody is made and depends only on the temperature

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Planck’s Quantum Hypothesis

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Planck hypothesized that the energy in a blackbody at a frequency f must be an integer multiple of the consant h=6.63x10^-34

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photons

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  • light is composed of particle-like photons
  • carry energy in discrete amounts
  • have zero rest mass
  • nonzero momentum
  • collide with other particles
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energy of a photon

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depends on its frequency

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photoelectric effect

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occurs when photons of light eject electrons from the surface of a metal

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work function

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the minimum energy required to eject an electron from a particular metal

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cutoff frequency

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if the frequency of the photon is greater than the frequency, the ejected electron has a finite kinetic energy

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compton effect

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if a pohoton undergoes a collision with an electron and scatters into a new direction its new wavelength is fiven by the compton shift formula

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de Broglie hypothesis

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since light displays particle-like behavior, praticles display wavelike behavior.
-hypothesized that particles have wavelengths

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wave-particle duality

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light and matter display both wavelike and particle-like properties

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quantum tunneling

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particles can pass through regions of space that would be forbidden to a classical particle

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atoms

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smallest unit of a given element

-if an atom is broken down into smaller pieces, it loses the properties that characterized the element

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Thomson Model

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aka plum pudding

-an atom is imagined to be like a positively charged pudding with negatively charged electrons scattered throughout

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rutherfold model

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aka a miniature solor system

  • an atom is somewhat like an atomic-scal solor system: mostly empty space, with most of its mass concentrated in the nucleus
  • electrons thought to orbit the nucleus
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spectrum of hydrogen

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excited atoms of hydrogen in a low-pressure gas give off light of specific wavelengths

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bohr’ model of the hydrogen atom

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assumes

  1. electrons move in circular orbits about the nucleus
  2. allowed orbits must have an angular momentum
  3. electrons in allowed orbits do not give off electromagnetic radiation
  4. radiation is emitted only when electrons jump from one orbit to another
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multielectron atoms and the periodic table

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as electrons are added to atoms, the properties of the atoms change in a regular and predictable way

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multielectron atoms

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energy levels in a multielectron atom depend on n and l.

-the energy increases with increasing n for fixedl, and with increasing l for fixed n

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shells and subshells

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electrons with the same value of n are said to be in the same shell
-electrons in a given shell with the same value of l are said to be in the same subshell

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the Pauli exclusion principle

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states that only a single electron may have a particular set of quantum number
-means that it is not possible for all the elextrons in a multielectron atom to occupy the lowest energy level

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electronic configurations

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the arrangement of electrons is indicated by the electronic configuration

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the periodic table

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as electrons fill subshells of progressively higher energy, they produce the elements of the periodic table.
-atoms with the same configuration of outermost electrons generally have similar chemical properties

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atomic radiation

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atoms can give off radiation ranging from x-rays to visible light to infrared rays

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xrays

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given off when an electron in an inner shell is knocked out of the atom, and an electron from an outer shell drops down to take its place

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lasers

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a device that produces light amplification by he stimulated emission of radiation

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fluorescence and phosphorescence

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when an electron in an atom is excited to a high energy level, it may return to the ground state through a series of lower-energy jumps
-these jumps give off radiation of longer wavelength than the radiation that caused the original excitation

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astigmatism

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an irregular curvature of the cornea

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