Physics 415

Homework #8

1) Consider a Youngs double slit experiment (e.g., Figure 9.8 in Hecht). If we replace the source slit S by a single long-filament light bulb, will we get an interference pattern? What would occur if we replaced the slits S1 and S2 by two such light bulbs? 2) Two 1.0-MHz radio antennas emitting in-phase are separated by 600 m along a northsouth line. A radio receiver placed 2.0 km east is equidistant from both transmitting antennas and picks up a fairly strong signal. How far north should that receiver be moved if it is again to detect a signal nearly as strong? 3) A stream of electrons, each having an energy of 0.5 eV, impinges on a pair of extremely thin slits separated by 10-2 mm. What is the distance between adjacent minima on a screen 20 m behind the slits? 4) Assume it is our intention to produce optical interference fringes by illuminating some sort of arrangement (double slit, thin film, Michelson interferometer, etc.) with light at a mean wavelength of 500 nm and having a linewidth of 2.5 10-3 nm. At approximately what optical path length difference can you expect the fringes to vanish? 5) A soap film surrounded by air has an index of refraction of 1.34. If a region of the film appears red (0 = 633 nm) in normally reflected light, what is its minimum thickness there? 6) A Michelson interferometer is illuminated with monochromatic light. One of its mirrors is then moved 2.53 10-5 m, and it is observed that 92 fringe pairs, bright and dark, pass by in the process. Find the wavelength of the incident beam. 7) Verify that the reflectance of a substrate material can be increased by coating it with a /4, high-index layer, that is, ncoating > nsubstrate. Show that the reflected waves interfere constructively. 8) A glass microscope lens having an index of 1.55 is to be coated with a magnesium fluoride film to increase the transmission of normally incident yellow light (0 = 550 nm). What minimum thickness should be deposited on the lens? 9) A glass camera lens is to be coated with a cryolite film (n = 1.30) to decrease the reflection of normally incident green light (0 = 500 nm). What thickness should be deposited on the lens? 10) Using Figure 9.60 in the Hecht text, which depicts the geometry of the space shuttle radar interferometer, show that z(x) = h r1 cos(). Then use the law of cosines to show that Equation 9.108 is correct.