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Chapter 33 Electromagnetic Waves

Chapter 33 Electromagnetic Waves

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Chapter 33 Electromagnetic Waves

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  1. Chapter 33 Electromagnetic Waves Today’s information age is based almost entirely on the physics of electromagnetic waves. The connection between electric and magnetic fields to produce light is one of the greatest achievements produced by physics, and electromagnetic waves are at the core of many fields in science and engineering. In this chapter we introduce fundamental concepts and explore the properties of electromagnetic waves and optics, the study of visible light, which is a branch of electromagnetism. (33-1)

  2. 33.1 Maxwell’s Rainbow Fig. 33-2 Fig. 33-1 The wavelength/frequency range in which electromagnetic (EM) waves are visible (light) is only a tiny fraction of the entire electromagnetic spectrum. (33-2)

  3. Next slide Fig. 33-3 Oscillation Frequency: 33.3 The Traveling Electromagnetic Wave, Qualitatively An LC oscillator causes currents to flow sinusoidally, which in turn produces oscillating electric and magnetic fields, which then propagate through space as EM waves. (33-3)

  4. Fig. 33-4 The Traveling Electromagnetic (EM) Wave, Qualitatively EM fields at P looking back toward LC oscillator (33-4)

  5. Electric Field: Magnetic Field: Wavenumber: Wave Speed: Angular frequency: Vacuum Permittivity: Vacuum Permeability: Fig. 33-5 Amplitude Ratio: Magnitude Ratio: Mathematical Description of Traveling EM Waves All EM waves travel a c in vacuum EM Wave Simulation (33-5)

  6. A Most Curious Wave • Unlike all the waves discussed in Chs. 16 and 17, EM waves require no medium through/along which to travel. EM waves can travel through empty space (vacuum)! • Speed of light is independent of speed of observer! You could be heading toward a light beam at the speed of light, but you would still measure c as the speed of the beam! (33-6)

  7. Fig. 33-6 3.4 The Traveling EM Wave, Quantitatively Induced Electric Field Changing magnetic fields produce electric fields, Faraday’s law of induction: (33-7)

  8. Fig. 33-7 The Traveling EM Wave, Quantitatively Induced Magnetic Field Changing electric fields produce magnetic fields, Maxwell’s law of induction: (33-8)

  9. 33.5 Energy Transport and the Poynting Vector Poynting Vector: The magnitude of S is related to the rate at which energy is transported by a wave across a unit area at any instant (inst). The unit for S is (W/m2). (33-9)

  10. Energy Transport and the Poynting Vector Instantaneous energy flow rate: Note that S is a function of time. The time-averaged value for S, Savg is also called the intensity I of the wave. (33-10)

  11. Variation of Intensity with Distance Fig. 33-8 Consider a point source S that is emitting EM waves isotropically (equally in all directions) at a rate PS. Assume that the energy of waves is conserved as they spread from source. How does the intensity (power/area) change with distance r? (33-11)

  12. 33.6 Radiation Pressure Total absorption: Total reflection back along path: EM waves have linear momentum as well as energylight can exert pressure. (33-12)

  13. 33.7 Polarization Fig. 33-10 The polarization of light describes how the electric field in the EM wave oscillates. Vertically planepolarized (or linearly polarized) (33-13)

  14. Polarized Light Fig. 33-11 Unpolarized or randomly polarized light has its instantaneous polarization direction vary randomly with time. One can produce unpolarized light by the addition (superposition) of two perpendicularly polarized waves with randomly varying amplitudes. If the two perpendicularly polarized waves have fixed amplitudes and phases, one can produce different polarizations such as circularly or elliptically polarized light. (33-14)

  15. Polarizing Sheet Fig. 33-12 I0 I Only the electric field component along the polarizing direction of polarizing sheet is passed (transmitted); the perpendicular component is blocked (absorbed). (33-15)

  16. Intensity of Transmitted Polarized Light Intensity of transmitted light, unpolarized incident light: Intensity of transmitted light, polarized incident light: Fig. 33-13 Since only the component of the incident electric field E parallel to the polarizing axis is transmitted. For unpolarized light, q varies randomly in time: (33-16)

  17. 33.8 Reflection and Refraction Reflection: Fig. 33-17 Refraction: Although light waves spread as they move from a source, often we can approximate its travel as being a straight line  geometrical optics. What happens when a narrow beam of light encounters a glass surface? Law of Reflection Snell’s Law (33-17) n is the index of refraction of the material.

  18. Refraction of light traveling from a medium with n1 to a medium with n2 Fig. 33-18 • For light going from n1 to n2: • n2 = n1 q2 = q1 • n2 > n1 q2<q1, light bent toward normal • n2 < n1 q2 > q1, light bent away from normal (33-18)

  19. Chromatic Dispersion Fig. 33-19 Fig. 33-20 The index of refraction n encountered by light in any medium except vacuum depends on the wavelength of the light. So if light consisting of different wavelengths enters a material, the different wavelengths will be refracted differently  chromatic dispersion. N2,blue>n2,red Chromatic dispersion can be good (e.g., used to analyze wavelength composition of light) or bad (e.g., chromatic aberration in lenses). (33-19)

  20. Chromatic Dispersion Fig. 33-21 Chromatic dispersion can be good (e.g., used to analyze wavelength composition of light) prism or bad (e.g., chromatic aberration in lenses) lens (33-20)

  21. Rainbows Fig. 33-22 Sunlight consists of all visible colors and water is dispersive, so when sunlight is refracted as it enters water droplets, is reflected off the back surface, and again is refracted as it exits the water drops, the range of angles for the exiting ray will depend on the color of the ray. Since blue is refracted more strongly than red, only droplets that are closer to the rainbow center (A) will refract/reflect blue light to the observer (O). Droplets at larger angles will still refract/reflect red light to the observer. What happens for rays that reflect twice off the back surfaces of the droplets? (33-21)

  22. 33.9 Total Internal Reflection Critical Angle: Fig. 33-24 For light that travels from a medium with a larger index of refraction to a medium with a smaller index of refraction n1>n2 q2>q1, as q1 increases, q2 will reach 90o (the largest possible angle for refraction) before q1 does. n2 n1 When q1> qc no light is refracted (Snell’s law does not have a solution!) so no light is transmitted  Total Internal Reflection Total internal reflection can be used, for example, to guide/contain light along an optical fiber. (33-22)

  23. 33.10 Polarization by Reflection Fig. 33-27 Brewster Angle: When the refracted ray is perpendicular to the reflected ray, the electric field parallel to the page (plane of incidence) in the medium does not produce a reflected ray since there is no component of that field perpendicular to the reflected ray (EM waves are transverse). • Applications • Perfect window: since parallel polarization is not reflected, all of it is transmitted • Polarizer: only the perpendicular component is reflected, so one can select only this component of the incident polarization Brewster’s Law In which direction does light reflecting off a lake tend to be polarized? (33-23)

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