Quizbowl Waves/Light I

Light bends in new medium

Refraction

Snell’s Law

Refraction

Kerr Effect (in relation to black holes)

Refraction

Focal lengths of lenses

Refraction

Light bounces

Reflection

Cannot happen to lenses

Reflection

= angle of incidence

Reflection

Telescopes w/ this are cheaper

Reflection

Wavefronts bend around obstacles

Diffraction

Bragg’s Law

Diffraction

Fraunhofer variety

Diffraction

Rayleigh-Sommerfield theory

Diffraction

Huygens–Fresnel principle

Diffraction

“Knife-edge” version

Diffraction

Kirchoff's scalar theory of

Diffraction

Kossel and Kikuchi lines

Diffraction

Transverse mode radiation is 0 when both are equal

Index of Refraction

Sqrt of epsilon for Lorentz oscillator

Index of Refraction

Brewster’s angle

Index of Refraction

Abbe number

Index of Refraction

negative values can cloak objects

Index of Refraction

“complex” form adds for absorption loss

Index of Refraction

= sqrt(permeability + permittivity)

Index of Refraction

Fizeau experiment

speed of light

Olbers’s paradox

Speed of light

Cherenkov radiation when particles exceed

Speed of light

Rayleigh criterion

Wavelength

Proportional to intensity of Rayleigh scattering

Wavelength

Michelson-Morley experiment

Interference

Englert–Greenberger equation

Interference