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Review
The Wave Nature of Light
Important: When a light wave travels from
one medium to another, its frequency does
not change, but its wavelength does.
1. Why we do not notice any dispersion when light passes
through a windowpane?
1. What does the dispersion of light tell us about the speeds of
various colors of light in a material?
2. Will the converging lens focus blue light or red light at a closer
distance to the lens? Explain.
Interference: Young’s Double Slit
Experiment
Constructive
Interference:
Destructive
Interference:
d sin  m ;
m  0,1,2.....
1
d sin   (m  ) ;
2
m  0,1,2.....
1. Would yellow light or green light produce the wider twoslit interference pattern?
2. If light and sound are both wave phenomena, why can we
hear sounds around a corner but cannot see around a
corner?
3. Red light is used to form a two-slit interference pattern on
a screen. As the two slits are moved farther apart, does the
separation of the bright bands on the screen decrease,
increase, or remain the same?
Diffraction by a Disk
Diffraction by a Single Slit
Limits of Resolution
The ability of lens to produce distinct images
of two point objects very close together is
called the resolution of lens.
1. Why can’t an ordinary microscope using visible light be
used to observe individual molecules?
2. Is it better to use red light or blue light to minimize
diffraction effects while photographing tiny objects through
a microscope? Why?
3. Why are the diffraction effects of your eyes more important
during the day than at night?
Interference by Thin Film
A beam of light reflected by a material
whose index of refraction is greater than
that of the material in which it is traveling,
changes phase by ½ cycle.
Polarization
1. Can sound waves be polarized?
Early Quantum Theory and
Models of the Atom
Discovery of Electron
Rutherford’s Model
Blackbody Radiation
A blackbody is a body that would absorb all
the radiation falling on it.
Planck’s Quantum Hypothesis
Planck’s assumption suggests that the energy of any
molecular vibration could be only some whole number
multiple of hf:
Emin  nhf ;
n  1,2,3....
1. If all objects emit radiation, why don’t we see most of
them in the dark?
2. Rutherford’s model provided an explanation for the
emission of light from atoms. What was this mechanism
and why was it unsatisfactory?
3. Suppose you were a nineteenth-century scientist who had
just discovered a new phenomenon known as Zeta rays.
What experiment could you perform to define if Zeta
rays are charged particles or e/m waves? Could this
experiment distinguish between neutral particles and an
e/m wave?
The Photoelectric Effect
1. An increase in intensity of the light beam means
more photons are incident, so more electrons will
be ejected , but max KE in not changed.
2. If the frequency of the light is increased, the max
KE increases linearly.
3. If the frequency f is less than the “cutoff’
frequency f0, no electrons will be ejected at all,
no matter how big is the intensity.
1. If a metal surface is illuminated by light at a single
frequency, why don’t all the photoelectrons have the
same kinetic energy when they leave the metal’s
surface?
2. What property of the emitted electrons depends on the
intensity of incident light?
3. What property of the emitted photoelectrons depends
on the frequency of incident light?
Bohr’s Model
Allowed Angular Momenta
h
Ln  n
2
Bohr’s Second Postulate
An electron doesn’t radiate when it is in one
of the allowed orbits.
Bohr’s Third Postulate
A single photon is emitted whenever an
electron jumps down from one orbit to
another.
1. Why do astronomers often use the terms color and
temperature interchangeably when referring to stars?
2. Why did Bohr assume that the electrons do not radiate when
they are in the allowed orbits?
Wave Nature of Matter
De Broglie Wavelength
h

mv
The Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle
h
xp 

2
34
  1.06  10 J  s
1. Why do astronomers often use the terms color and
temperature interchangeably when referring to stars?
2. Why did Bohr assume that the electrons do not radiate when
they are in the allowed orbits?
Wave Nature of Matter
De Broglie Wavelength
h

mv
The Heisenberg Uncertainty
Principle
h
xp 

2
34
  1.06  10 J  s
Particle in a Box
Quantum Mechanics of the
Hydrogen Atom
n – principal quantum number, positive
integer;
l – orbital quantum number, is related to the
magnitude of the angular momentum of the
electron; at given n can take integer values
from 0 to (n-1);
ml – magnetic quantum number, is related to
the direction of the electron’s angular
momentum, and it can take an integer values
from –l to +l.
Selection Rule
Another prediction of quantum mechanics is that
when a photon is emitted or absorbed, transitions can
occur only between states with values of l that differ
by one unit.
The Exclusion Principle
No two electrons in an atom can occupy the
same quantum state.
1. How many electrons have the quantum numbers n=5 and
l=1?
2. How many electrons can have the quantum numbers n=5
and l=4?
3. Why do some minerals glow when they are illuminated
with ultraviolet light?
Radioactivity
Alpha Decay
Transmutation
parent
daughter
Beta Decay
Gamma Decay
1. Which of the three types of radiation will interact with
electric field?
2. Why do beta rays and alpha rays deflect in opposite
directions when moving through a magnetic field?
1. What happens to the charge of the nucleus when it decays
via beta plus decay?
2. What happens to the charge of the nucleus when it decays
via electron capture?
3. What changes in the numbers of neutrons and protons
occur when a nucleus is bombarded with a deuteron
(containing one neutron and one proton) and an alpha
particle is emitted?
Half-Life and Rate of Decay
1. You place a chunk of radioactive material on a scale and
find that it has a mass of 4 kilogram. The half-life of the
material is 10 days. What will the scale read after 10
days?
2. A radioactive material has a half-life of 50 days. How
long would you have to watch a particular nucleus
before would see it decay?