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4.1 Wave And Quantam Behaviour Flashcards

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How do u calculate frequency with an oscilloscope?

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  • measures voltage over time
  • move voltage per division and time per division dials to give waves
  • find time period and multiple by time per division
  • 1/T= frequency
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How do u use standing waves to calculate the speed of sound?

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  • Hollow tube in into measuring cylinder of water
  • get tuning fork and note down frquency
  • gently tap so sound wave travels and reflected at water surface where a node is formed
  • move tube up and down until u find shortest distance that it resoantes (makes loud sound)
  • measure distance (this is 1/4 wavelength)
  • find speed from v=f lambda
  • repeat w different frequencies
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What is refraction?

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When a wave changes direction as it enters a different medium

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How does refraction occur?

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  • When a ray enters mew medium some energy is reflected back and rest transferred into new medium
  • if it enters at and angle to the normal it changes speed
  • frequency is constant so also changes wavelength
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If a ray of light travels into a more optically dense medium what happens.

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  • if medium is denser then lught interacts w more particles so slows down more as more energy is transferred
  • the ray bends toward the normal
  • the wavelength decreases
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What is absolute refractive index and how is it calculated?

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-Ratio of speed of light in a vaccum to speed in that medium so is
n=c/cmedium

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How do u calculate refractive index?

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Sini / Sinr=C1/ C2=n2/n1

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What can be said about airs refractive index?

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  • Speed of light very similar to C so assume n is 1

- sini / sinr=n (of medium)

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What is diffraction?

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When waves spread out as they come through a small gap

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How to show diffraction with a ripple tank?

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  • change gap size

- most diffraction when gap is equal to wavelength

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Showing diffraction with an obstacle

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  • when a wave meets an obstacle it diffracts round the edges
  • forms triangular type of shadow behind obstacle
  • when length of obstacle gets larger than wave length the wave diffracts less so gives longer shadow
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Explain diffraction of a beam of light through a split?

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  • if wavelength of light wave is similar to the size of apeture split) u get light and dark fringes on a screen
  • bright central fringe w dark and brigth alternation fringes on either side decreasion in intensity as less photons incident per unit aread
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Why is the brightest point the centre in a single split experiment?

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Light travels in straight line so all waves are in phase

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How to bright fringes appear in single split experiment?

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-infinite sources of wavelets can interfere with each other
-Brightest fringe are in phase so point straight
For other bright points:
-constant phase difference
-so waves super impose but phasors are in slightly different directions
-form smaller resultant

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Why do dark fringes appear in single split?

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  • phase difference between waves give a resultant phasor of zero
  • phasor forms a loop
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What has to be true about waves making a diffraction pattenr?

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Need to be coherent ( same frequency and wavelength and comstant phase differentce)

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How is double split set up?

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  • when a laser is shined at a double slit it can act as two coherent point sources
  • the slits must be similar sized to wavelngth so light can be difffracted
  • a pattern of light and dark fringes appear depnding on constructive or destructive interferenc
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What is youngs double slit formula

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X (fringe spacing) =D (distance from screen) x wavelength / d (split spacing)

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What is youngs double slit evidence for and what does it show?

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  • wave nature of light

- shows diffraction and interference

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What dies a diffraction grating do for monochromatic loght?

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  • lots of equally spaces slits
  • gives brighter and narrower fringes and darker dark fringes
  • because so many beams reinforce interfecenrce pattern
  • gives more accurate measurements
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What are zero, first and second order lines in light passed thrpigh diffraction grating?

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  • maximum centre kine is zero order line

- next bright fringe out is first order and son on

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How do you derive youngs double slit from diffraction grating equation?

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  • small angle approximation for first order tan feta= feta and sinfeta=feta
  • make a tan triangle
  • show X/D =tan feta = feta= sin feta (bc small angle)
  • sub in gives you Xd/D= wave length x 1 (n=1)
  • rearrangel for X
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How is a spectra produced from white light?

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White light is a mixture of colours with different wavelengths

  • through a diffraction grating the patterns due to different wavelmgths are spread out by different ammounts
  • each order except the zero order become a spectra withe red on outside and violet on inside
  • the spectras help identify elements
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What is a photon

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-discrete packets of energy called quanta

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What is an electron volt?
-kinteic energy gained by an electron when it is accelerated through a pd of 1 vold
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How are LEDs used to estimate Plancks constant?
- LED of known wavelength in circuit placed in very dark room - slowly adjust power source until a cirrent just begins to flow and LEDlights up - record V ( threshhold voltage) across LED - repeat w different coloured LEDs of different wavelngths - plot V against frequency to get straight line graph of gradient h/e - multiply by e for h - repeat for average -
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What does photoelectric effect show?
-particle behaviour of light
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Explain photo electric effect
- when light hits its surface, metal is bombarded w photons - if one of these photons is absorbed by a free electron the electron gains E=hf energy - if its enough energy to break bonds holding it there its is emmited
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How does increase in light intensity affect photo elctrons?
- each electron only absorbs one photon at a time so all energy for a release comes from one photon NOT a build up - so im reased light intensity (more photons) wont affect ke of electrons only frequency will
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Photo electric effect conclusions
- For a given metal no photoelectrons emitted if radiation is below threshhold frequency - value of KE increases w frequency and uneffected by light intensity
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What is number of photo electrons emmited per second proportional to?
Intnesity
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Why cant photo electric effect be explaimed by wave theory?
- according to wave theory even if light had a low frequency it would give a little bit of energy for eac hwave and build up over time - so the higher intensity the more energy so ke would increase w intensity but it doesnt
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Explain work function
-work function of a metal is energy needed to break bonds holding it there -if energy gained is greater than work finction of metal electron is emitted -if notmetal heats up hf>work function
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Equation for work function
F=work function/h
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Explain energy levels
- electrons exist in energy levels - it can move down by emitting a photon - energy carried by photon is equal to difference in energy levels
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How is a line emission spectra produced?
- gas heated to high temp, excites atoms so moves electrons to higher energy levels - as they fall back to ground state certain photons emitted - split light thorugh a diffraction grating gives a line spectra - each line correspomds to particular wavelength of light emitted from the photons of soecific energies
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How is an absorbtion spectra formed.
- white light passes through a cool gas most electrons are in ground state - photons of correct wavelengths are absorbed by electrons to excited them to higher energy levels - these wavelengths are then missing from spectrum - can work out elements in gas by which wavelengths are absorbed
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What can be said about photon paths?
-Photons take all possible paths at omce
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How to use phasors to find probability of arrival
-most paths cancel so consider straightest/quickest paths -add phasors at the end of every path to give resultant phasor -(longer paths will have rotated further as same frequency) -probability is proportional to the resultant phasor squared -
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Which path gives highest probaiblity
-quickest route as will contribute most to resultant amplitude
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Summary of electron diffraction
-electrons accelerated in a vaccum passed through graphite crystal and interact with the spaces to form rings of bright and dark fringes -use phasors to find how likely it is, higher probability brighter point on screen -evidnece for debrogile wavelngth as 1/2mv^2=hv/lambda A higher voltage give higher Velocity gives smaller wavelength and smaller line spread Which fits with lambda=h/mv
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Explain debrogile wavelength
- says that particles display quantam bahvaioir | - increasing accelerating volatage increases speed so shorter wavelengths so smaller spread of lines
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How dpes E=hf differ for electrons
E is the kinetic energy
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When do electrons not show qunatam behaviour?
- only diffract w objects of similar wavelengths | - shorter wavelngth diffracts less
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What is a standing wave, how do they form?
Standing waves form when two identical waves travelling in opposite directions superimpose forming nodes and anti nodes. Usually a wave is reflected to form a standing wave
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What do bright and dark fringes show about probability of an electron arriving at a point?
Bright fringes show high probability as many electrons have arrived here and interference pattern has built up to make bright fringes
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How are we able to identify when an electron has hit the screen?
When electron hits screen photon is released
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