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Light Introduction: Slide 3 Electromagnetic Wave Transverse Traveling oscillating electric field and magnetic field Can travel through space Generated by accelerated charges Emitted by excited atoms when they return to ground stateTRANSCRIPT
Light Introduction: Slide 1
Light Introduction
Light Introduction: Slide 2
Light -- an Electromagnetic Wave
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Electromagnetic Wave• Transverse• Traveling oscillating
electric field and magnetic field
• Can travel through space
• Generated by accelerated charges
• Emitted by excited atoms when they return to ground state
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Electromagnetic Spectrum
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Visible Part of Spectrum
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Spring Model• Electrons can be
modeled as particles connected to the atomic nucleus by springs
• Electrons of atoms in glass have certain natural frequencies of vibration
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Light Transmission
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Glass Transparency
Ultraviolet matches natural frequency of electrons in glassInfrared vibrates entire atom or moleculeBoth result in warming of the glass
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Opaque• What does it mean for an object to be
opaque?
• Light is absorbed without being re-emitted.
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Umbra to Penumbra
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Solar Eclipse
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