Exam 22: Electromagnetic Waves

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Using the approximate formula for the Doppler shift, f0 ≈\approx fs (1 + vrel / c) one finds that a source is moving away at 0.60 c.What result would the exact formula yield for the recession speed?

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Light of a wavelength of 661.1 nm is received from a star that is emitting light of a wavelength of 659.6 nm.How fast is the star moving relative to the earth and is it moving toward or away?

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Electromagnetic waves of wavelength 1000 nm are classified as

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Radiation of intensity 1.00 kW/m2 is incident on an area perpendicular to the incoming light.The area is now rotated 20 ∘^{\circ} about an axis perpendicular to the incoming light.What is the resulting power per unit area now reaching the surface?

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The sun is 150 ×\times 106 km from the Earth.How long does it take for light to travel this distance?

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If the wavelength of light is 400 nm in a substance where the speed of light is 2.35 ×\times 108 m/s,what is the wavelength of this light in air?

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The longest wavelengths of visible light are in the color

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How fast would you have to drive in order to see a red light as green? Assume λ\lambda = 630 nm for red and λ\lambda = 530 nm for green

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In vacuum,the components of an EM wave are Ey = 50( V/m )cos[(5.00 m-1)x + ω\omega t], Ex = 0, and Ez = 0.What is ω\omega ?

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What is the speed of light in a material that has an index of refraction of 2.0?

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Light of 10 cm wavelength is classified as what type of radiation?

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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 final intensity of the beam?

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For an unpolarized EM wave,the electric field direction is

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