Analysis.

Our group conducted an experiment about the concept of photometry.

Photometry is the study of visual radiation or the visual spectrum of light. This
experiment also includes the first type of measure to explore two interesting
phenomena of light: Inverse Square Law and Polarization. With this, the experiment
was divided into two parts.
The first part of the experiment involves the Inverse Square Law. The setup
for this experiment includes photometer, optical bench and two light sources. The
observations and data that we had for this experiment can be seen on TABLE 1.
Inverse Square Law. As seen on the table, we had used two setups where there is a
different value for r1, which are 30cm and 45cm. For each setup, we conducted 4
trials with different transmittance from 100% to 25% and an increment of 25%. With
the help of inverse square law, we have computed the actual value of r2. It is seen
on our table that our experimental results for r2 agrees with the actual value r2,
which is why we had a very low percent error.
The second part of our experiment involves another phenomena of light,
which is polarization. This experiment basically had the same setup as the first
experiment but in this case, the side of the neutral density filters is facing the Light
Source 2. As seen on TABLE 2. Polarization, we had four trials with different
percentage of transmittance just like in the first part. The results for this part of the
experiment are actually great since we had a zero % error.

With this experiment, we have analyzed two interesting phenomena of light:

Inverse Square Law and Polarization. It is also found out that photometry can be
used to determine various factors affecting the intensity of light and how can it be
manipulated through a photometer. In spite of this, there were still sources of errors
that occurred in the experiment. Some of this could be the inability to make the
right judgments when it comes to the light seen on the eyepiece. There could also
be mistakes in measurements and computations that could lead to major errors in
the experiment.