Electromagnetic Wave Introduction
This describes how the electric and magnetic field waves are oriented to each other
What is orthogonal?
In terms of light waves, this term refers to the orientation of the transverse wave oscillations.
What is polarization?
When the light strikes photosensitive metallic materials, electrons are released.
What is the photoelectric effect?
This is a measure of the angle of incoming light with respect to the normal of the surface.
What is the incident angle?
These 4 things are types of electrostatic charging methods
What are friction, conduction, induction, and polarization?
This type of scattering is dependent on the wavelength. This explains why the sky changes colors at sunset and mid-day.
This experiment determined that particles behave like waves and waves behave like particles.
What is the Young's Double-Slit Experiment?
The terms used when the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection.
What is the Law of Reflection?
The term for when light passes through a prism and splits into its consituent colors.
What is Dispersion?
These are graphical depictions of the vectors emanating from a point charge.
What are Electric Lines of Force?
When a photon and electron collide, the electron briefly enters a higher energy shell before returning to ground state and emitting that energy in the form of a lower energy photon. Relative to X-ray and Gamma Ray Scattering.
What is Compton scattering?
This term describes a body that is a good absorber and a good emitter, and that an ideal radiator is also an ideal absorber.
What is a Blackbody?
The principle that states that every point on an advancing wave front can be considered to be the source of secondary waves, and the surface tangent to these determines a new position on the wavefront. Simply, every point will be refracted.
What is Huygens's Principle?
This law states that the net number of electric field lines passing through an imaginary closed surface is proportional to the amount of net charge enclosed within that surface.
What is Gauss's Law?
These two things are produced during a process called pair production that occurs when a gamma-ray is fired at a target and doesn't scatter
What is an electron and a positron?
This principle states that it is impossible to simultaneously determine both the position and momentum of a particle with great precision.
What is the Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle?
This measures how much light bends and slows down when entering a material. The denser the material, the slower light will travel through it.
What is the Index of Refraction?
What is the term for when light bends around obstacles or when light passes through very small aperture openings.
This states that if temperature increases, wavelength decreases.
What is the Wien's DIsplacement Law?
These conditions state how light will bend in reference to the normal