Summative Test 1 and Performance Task 1

Name __DANIEL ANGELO ESQUEJO ARANGO_______________

Section _STEM 12 A___________________

1. Calculate the wavelengths of a 1520 kHz Am radio signal, a 215 MHz

radio signal and a 3.5 GHz cell phone signal.

c c c
λ= λ= λ=
f f f
3 x 108 m/s 3 x 108 m/s 3 x 108 m/s
¿ ¿ ¿
1.52 x 10 8 Hz 2. 15 x 108 Hz 3.5 x 10 8 Hz

= 197.37 m = 1.395 m = 0.086 m

2. Explain how Total Internal Reflection (TIR) occurs. Include in your
explanation the conditions for TIR to happen.
Total internal reflection occurs when an angle is greater than the
critical angle and when the second medium has an index less than
the first. Total internal reflection will only take place when the light
is in the more dense medium that approach to a less dense
medium as well as when the angle of residence is greater than the
critical angle. TIR will not occur when the incident light is travelling
within the less optically dense medium.

3. Use the concept of TIR to explain how diamond sparkles.

The total internal reflection is the main reason for the brilliance of

diamonds, and it happens when the light ray enters a diamonds

which will definitely undergo in the process of TIR since the

critical angle for diamond is very low.