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LECTURE 14
questions after lecture
first go back and answer these
now think about these
- Give three examples of refraction of light.
- How do we know that light is a wave? I want the pre-Maxwell answer.
- What did Maxwell say the medium is for light waves? What is the medium for light waves? Is it material?
- What was being illustrated when I told you to pinch your fingers close together and look through them? What was the point of making a very small slit?
- Who or what detects the nonvisible frequencies of light? Example: your radio detects FM.
- Give an example of the Doppler effect for vehicles, sound and light.
- Give an example of a shock wave for water and for sound.
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Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.
Revised September 25, 1997.
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