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Chapter 5: light
37) What is the frequency of a wave?
38) What is the wavelength of a wave?
39) Rank the following, from lowest energy to highest energy:
infrared, visible light, ultraviolet, X-rays, gamma rays, radio
40) Suppose you know the frequency of a photon and the speed of light.
What else can you determine about the photon?
41) In what ways do light and matter interact?
42) How can an electron in an atom lose energy to go from a higher energy
level to a lower energy level? How does it go from a lower energy level to a
higher energy level? What stands for the frequency (therefore the energy
too) of the photon involved in this process?
43) Write the appropriate interaction between light and matter in each
example (absorption, transmission, emission, reflection or scattering):
- Blue light hitting a red sweatshirt
- Cell phone signals passing through walls
- Light coming from a firefly
- Red light hitting a red car
- Radio waves passing through mountains and reaching your car
- Ultraviolet rays causing sunburn
- The light released from a star
- The fact that we see the Moon and some planets
44) How is thermal radiation defined as? Suppose you see two stars: a blue
star and a red star. What can you conclude about the two stars?
45) What do we call redshift?
2) Which of the following statements does not use the term light-year in an
appropriate way?
A) It's about 4 light-years from here to Alpha Centauri.
B) It will take me light-years to complete this homework assignment.
C) A light-year is about 10 trillion kilometers.
D) It will take the Voyager spacecraft about 20,000 years to travel just 1 light-year.
E) The Milky Way Galaxy is about 100,000 light-years in diameter.
6) The ancient Greeks get a lot of attention for their contributions to science
because ________.
A) they were the first people known to try to explain nature with models based on reason and
mathematics, without resort to the supernatural
B) the books of every other culture were lost in the destruction of the library of Alexandria
C) they were the first people to realize that Earth is a planet orbiting the Sun
D) they were the only ancient culture that kept written records of their astronomical observations
10) We are measuring the spectra of two hydrogen gas clouds. The
laboratory frame wavelength of one hydrogen line is 656.2 nm. Cloud A's
emission line wavelength is 660.1 nm and Cloud B's emission line
wavelength is 670.1 nm. What can we conclude about these clouds?
A) They are both approaching us, and Cloud B is approaching faster than Cloud A.
B) They are both receding from us, and Cloud B is receding faster than Cloud A.
C) They are both approaching us, and Cloud A is approaching faster than Cloud B.
D) They are both receding from us, and Cloud A is receding faster than Cloud B.
11) One star is emitting primarily visible light and another star is emitting
primarily infrared light. Which star is hotter?
A) The star emitting infrared light.
B) The temperature also depends on the radius of the star, so one can't decide based on the
information provided.
C) The star emitting visible light.
D) Both stars are the same temperature.