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LECTURE 37
questions after lecture
first try these again
now answer these
- Name and describe with a simple diagram seven ways light can interact with matter.
- What determines what color fabric will be?
- What determines whether the color will fade from fabric?
- Describe population inversion and stimulated emission in lasers. Draw the diagrams.
- What quantum effect determines how small an electron microscope can see?
- What quantum effect alows a scanning tunneling microscope to see even smaller?
- How small can each of these microscopes see?
- What role does the Uncertainty Relation play in tunneling?
- How does a light pipe made of many fibers carry information?
- What property of energy levels underlies the reliability of atomic clocks?
- What role does the Uncertainty Relation play in choosing an element for an atomic clock?
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Professor Bernice Durand, bdurand@theory3.physics.wisc.edu.
Revised November 30, 1997.
Content © 1997, Bernice Durand
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