PHY 212, Quiz #5, Review Exercises

Worth up to +10 bonus points! You must: 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. Write out your solutions. Explain conceptual questions with 1-2 sentences. Show how you got the right answer. Box your final answer. Complete ALL the problems. Submit these before or on Thursday 8/5/10. Absolutely no extra time.

Physics Conceptual Questions 1. B dA is equal to what quantity? a.

d B . dt

b. c. c. 0. d. Q e0 . e. 0i . 2. When the electric field vectors at all points along an electromagnetic wave point to the north, and the magnetic field vectors all point to the east, the wave is traveling a. south. b. west. c. northeast. d. straight up from the surface of the Earth (+z direction) e. straight down toward the surface of the Earth (-z direction) 3. What is the Poynting vector for a wire of length , resistance R , and radius a carrying a current I? (Answer:
I 2R ) 2 a

4. Which of these electromagnetic waves can be generated by LC circuits? a. Ultraviolet light b. Radio waves c. Visible light d. Microwaves e. Both b and d 5. Which one of the following has the middle (intermediate sized) wavelength & frequency amongst the choices (on the next page)?

a. Gamma rays b. Visible light c. Microwaves d. Radio waves e. Infrared rays 6. Two spaceships use solar sails. Sail A is a perfect absorber; sail B a perfect reflector. Compare the amounts of energy that could be stored in the ships batteries as a result of the interaction of the solar radiation with the sails. a. U A = U B = 0 . b. U A > 0 ; U B = 0 . c. U A = 0 ; U B > 0 . d. U A > U B > 0 . e. U A < U B < 0 .

7. You can detect whether or not light reflected from a horizontal surface, such as a swimming pool, is polarized or partially polarized by passing the light through a. a pair of polarizing sheets with their axes oriented in the same direction. b. a pair of polarizing sheets with their axes oriented at right angles to one another. c. a single polarizing sheet oriented vertically. d. a single polarizing sheet oriented horizontally. e. a single polarizing sheet and rotating the sheet while holding its plane perpendicular to the direction of travel of the light.

8. When the ratio of the wavelengths of light of frequency f in two different substances is 1:2, the ratio of the indices of refraction in the same two substances is, what? a. 1:1 b. 1:2 c. 3:1 d. 1:3 e. 2:1

9. The ratio of the wavelength of light in medium 1 to the wavelength of light in medium 2 is 1:2. The speed of light in medium 2 is twice as great as the speed of light in medium 1. What is the ratio of the frequency in medium 1 to the frequency in medium 2? a. 1:1 b. 1:2 c. 3:1 d. 1:3 e. 2:1

10. A visible green light ray originating at a point source travels through a prism, is reflected by a plane mirror and absorbed by a photocell (absorber of visible light). If the positions of the photocell and point source are interchanged, how do we describe the path of the new ray? a. cannot be predicted in advance. b. retraces the original rays path. c. retraces the original rays path through the mirror but refracts at complementary angles in the prism. d. reflects at a complementary angle in the mirror, but refracts along the original rays directions in the prism. e. refracts and reflects at complementary angles in the prism and the mirror respectively.

11. The figure below shows an example of red and violet rays refracted in a water droplet. This tells you that the red and violet rays you see in the rainbow must come from different water droplets, since the rays from a single droplet will have diverged too much for both of them to enter your eye. The geometry shows that ____________________ (complete the sentence).

Violet Red

a. the drops from which we see violet are vertically above those from which we see red. b. the drops from which we see red are vertically above those from which we see violet. c. we only see a rainbow when sunlight strikes water droplets that are near our eyes. d. we must know the positions of the green and yellow rays before we can answer this question. 12. A student stands 2 m from a plane mirror and sees one fourth of her body in the mirror. At what distance in m from the mirror, if any, must she stand in order to see half her body? a. 1 b. 4 c. 6 d. 8 e. She will see one-fourth of her body at all normal distances. 13. To look at your face in a concave mirror of focal length f and see it enlarged 3 times its normal size, your distance from the mirror must be
4 f. 3 2 b. f . 3

a.

c. 3f. d. given by either (a) or (b). e. given by either (a), (b), or (c).

14. An object located on the principle axis of a concave mirror is 15 cm from the mirror. The focal length of the mirror is 10 cm. Which of the following best describes the image? a. Virtual, upright, and larger b. Virtual, inverted, and larger c. Virtual, upright, and smaller d. Real, inverted, and smaller e. Real, inverted, and larger

Physics Calculations 15. What is the maximum value of the E field 3.50 m from an 800 W source? (Answer: 62.6 V/m)

16. The Earth is 1.49 1011 meters from the Sun. If the solar radiation at the top of the Earths atmosphere is 1340 W m 2 , what is the total power output of the Sun? (Answer: 3.74 10 26 W)

17. Find the force exerted by reflecting sunlight off a reflecting aluminum sheet in space if the area normal to the sunlight is 10 ,000 m 2 and the solar intensity is 1350 W m 2 . (Answer: 0.09 N)

18. What is the maximum radiation pressure exerted by sunlight in space S = 1350 W m 2 on a flat black absorbing surface? (Answer: 4.5 10 6 Pa)

19. A solar cell has a light gathering area of 10 cm 2 and produces 0.2 A at 0.8 V (DC) when illuminated with S = 1000 W m 2 sunlight. What is the efficiency of the solar cell? (Answer: 16% efficient)

20. Unpolarized light is passed through three successive Polaroid filters, each with its transmission axis at 45 to the preceding filter. What percentage of light gets through? (Answer: 12.5 %)

21. Green visible light of wavelength 550 nm in vacuum enters a substance with an index of refraction of 1.47. What is the wavelength in nm in the medium? (Answer: 374 nm)

22. A diver shines light up to the surface of a glass-bottomed boat at an angle of 30 relative to the normal. If the index of refraction of water and glass are 1.33 and 1.5, at what angle in degrees does the light leave the glass, relative to its normal? (Answer: 42)

19. Starting with the incident angle 1 show how to arrive at 4. (Do NOT work backwards!)

23. A layer of water ( n = 1.333 ) floats on a container of carbon tetrachloride ( n = 1.461 ). What is the critical angle at the interface? (Answer: 65.8)

24. An object 15 cm high is placed 15 cm in front of a convex mirror with a focal length of 10 cm. What is the image height in cm? (Answer: 6 cm tall)

25. A concave mirror has a focal length of 20 cm. What is the magnification when the objects distance is 100 cm? (Answer: -1/4)

26. The object distance for an object in front of a diverging (concave) lens is 30 cm. If the image distance is 15 cm, what is the focal length in cm? (Answer: 10 cm)

27. An object is placed 6 cm in front of a converging (convex) lens that has a focal length of 4 cm. What is the resulting magnification? (Answer: -2)

Extended Question 1: An object is first placed in front of a concave (converging) mirror as shown in the first figure. It then stays the same location away but then is placed in front of a convex mirror, as shown in the second figure. (Each mirror has same magnitude of f and R.) a) Identify the object type (real /virtual), magnification (enhanced/diminished), and image orientation (upright/inverted for each scenario. b) Justify your answers by sketching ray diagrams for each scenario.

Extended Question 2: An object is first placed in front of a converging (convex) lens as shown in the first figure. It then stays in front of the same lens, but then is placed further away, as shown in the second figure. Assume the object locations can be read from the axes. The focal length of the lens in each case is 10 cm. a) Identify the object type (real /virtual), magnification (enhanced/diminished), and image orientation (upright/inverted for each scenario. b) Justify your answers by sketching ray diagrams for each scenario.