Lasers
This is something you don't want to point a laser at.
What is an eye?
This phenomenon allows optical fibers to transmit light across long distances (thousands of kilometers).
What is total internal reflection?
It is the process by which an electron randomly transitions to a lower energy level, emitting a photon.
What is spontaneous emission?
These are the postive particles in a plasma.
What are ions?
These are the three Umich campuses.
What are North, South, and Central?
Optical signals and lasers can be transmitted through these special cables?
What are fiber optics?
A physicist in 2099 wins the Nobel Prize in physics for engineering a glass with an index of refraction of n = 9. This is (up to 3 significant figures) the speed of light in the Nobel Prize winner's glass.
What is 3.33*10^7 m/s?
This device accumulates enough charge to light up neon lights that are in its vicinity.
What is a Tesla coil?
This structure in a plasma contains large electric fields and is left behind when a high-energy beam hits a plasma.
This is the name of the Umich children's hospital (highest ranked in the state).
What is C.S. Mott Children's Hospital?
This is an area of science from the list below that does not use lasers.
1) Gravitational wave astrophysics
2) Microbiology
3) Computer science
4) None of the above
4) None of the above
What is "3) Computer science"?
This is the value of the critical angle when light travels from a medium with n1 = 2 to n2 = sqrt(3)
What is 60º?
Maya shoots a laser straight down at the ground. At some point in space and time, the electric field points North. This is the direction in which the magnetic field is pointing.
What is East?
This is one way that plasma can be generated in a lab.
What is ...?
During the camp, you've seen a number of physics related sculptures. This sculpture sits outside of the Engineering Research Building II (the big tall scary dungeon looking building)
What is the hologram sculpture?
This is how the idea for Lasik came about.
What is that time a graduate student shot themself in the eye with a laser, and the laser burned a perfect hole in their retina?
This species of fish knows Snell's Law and uses it to hunt.
What are archer fish?
This is the name of a new class of computers that are being researched by physicists currently.
What are quantum computers?
What is red?
This Umich undergrad engineering program is the highest ranked in the country.
What is nuclear engineering?
This is why lasers don't exist in nature.
What is the fact that natural light is not coherent?
A laser hits a material with this index of refraction at an angle of 45º to the normal and is transmitted at an angle of 60º to the normal.
What is 1/sqrt(3)?
This band on the electromagnetic spectrum has the longest wavelength
This is the frequency at which electrons naturally oscillate in a plasma when they are perturbed (pushed).
What is the plasma frequency?
This animal jumped into the Umich law library through a window last October and was subsequently chased by law enforcement.
What is a deer?