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Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: The bright colors seen in an oil slick floating on water or in a sunlit soap bubble are caused by interference. The brightest colors are those that…

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Light diffracts as it moves through space, bending around obstacles, interfering constructively and destructively. While this can be used as a spectroscopic tool—a diffraction grating disperses light…

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Light passing through a single slit forms a diffraction pattern somewhat different from those formed by double slits or diffraction gratings. Figure 27.21 shows a single slit diffraction pattern.…

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: An interesting thing happens if you pass light through a large number of evenly spaced parallel slits, called a diffraction grating. An interference pattern is created that is…

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Although Christiaan Huygens thought that light was a wave, Isaac Newton did not. Newton felt that there were other explanations for color, and for the interference and…

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: Figure 27.4 shows how a transverse wave looks as viewed from above and from the side. A light wave can be imagined to propagate like this, although we…

Learning Objectives By the end of this section, you will be able to: We know that visible light is the type of electromagnetic wave to which our eyes respond. Like all other electromagnetic waves, it obeys the equation c=fλ, 27.1…

Figure 27.1 Katharine Burr Blodgett (1898–1979) was a physicist and chemist who made significant advancements in the study of surfaces and thin films. The trough she developed is still used in thousands of labs around the world, and her invention of non-reflective…