Exam 22: Electromagnetic Waves

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Your favorite radio station is located due north of your house and broadcasts using a horizontal electric dipole antenna directed north-south.To receive this signal you need to

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If a 20 W laser beam,which has an initial diameter of 2.0 mm,spreads out to a diameter of 2.0 m after traveling 10,000 m,what is the initial Erms of the beam?

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Light passes from medium one ( v1 ) to medium two ( v2 ). If v1 < v2 then at the boundary

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Nexrad radar uses a frequency of 2.7 GHz to measure the speed of cloud systems.The radio waves from the transmitter are sent outward to the cloud system and reflected back,Doppler shifted.A Nexrad system observes clouds moving toward the transmitter at 21 m/s.What is the difference between the transmitted frequency and the frequency received after reflection off the cloud surface?

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Wavelengths just shorter than visible light are classified as

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Approximately how long does it take for light to travel one foot?

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An electromagnetic wave with a wave length about the same as the diameter of an apple would be

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At the summer solstice in June,at what latitude is the sun directly overhead at solar noon?

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What power is produced by a light bulb that yields 12 mW on a 15 cm ×\times 25 cm sheet of paper that is normal to the line directly toward the bulb,if the paper is 1.7 m from the bulb?

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If the intensity of radiation from the sun is 1.4 kW/m2 at a distance of 150 ×\times 106 km,at what distance is the intensity 5.6 kW/m2?

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The electromagnetic spectrum arranged by increasing wavelength is

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Unpolarized light of intensity I0 is sent through 4 polarizers,each of the last three rotated 30 ∘^{\circ} from the previous polarizer so that the last polarizer is perpendicular to the first.What is the intensity transmitted by this system?

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If the distance from a point source of EM radiation is doubled,the intensity is

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A dipole radio transmitter has its rod shaped antenna oriented vertically.At a point due south of the transmitter,the radio waves have their magnetic field

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If a 20 W laser beam,which has an initial diameter of 2.0 mm,spreads out to a diameter of 2.0 m after traveling 10,000 m,what is the initial intensity of the beam?

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Radio waves were discovered by

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Household wiring can emit electromagnetic waves of frequency 60 Hz.What is the wavelength of these waves?

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In what spectral range are black lights that cause materials to fluoresce in the visible?

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How far does light travel in a century?

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When light goes from one medium to another medium with a different index of refraction,which of the following do (does)NOT change?

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