Friday, June 6, 2014

Light Waves

Wavelength and Frequency


What is the electromagnetic spectrum? 
     Emits radiation and creates energy. Depending on the amount of energy the colors will be different
Electrons in materials are vibrated and emit energy in the form of photons, which move around the universe. 

What is visible light?
Its what we see and how we see it. like looking through a window we can't see just a blank screen we can see through. because the light from the sun reflects to our eyes letting us see. 


 Why does white light break into the colors of the rainbow? 
Because the light frequency changes and in some parts of the sky. The colors will change. 

The colors are different because the wavelengths are different for different colors.  


Light is a reflection of the sun beating down on other objects. It is part of an electromagnetic spectrum that creates the colors Red, Orange, Yellow, green, blue , indigo and violet. The colors of the rainbow. 
light hits at different angles which means that the colors will be different. And each will be more dense than the other. 

How we know about light: 

Reflection
Refraction
Dispersion
Diffraction
Interference
Polarization


Light Reflection and Reflection


Reflection happens because the light shines to one side of the mirror and reflects to the other side reflecting the light. refraction happens when you look at a mirror the light reflects from your eyes and hits the mirror than hits the other mirror reflecting the object. 






Monday, June 2, 2014

Speed of sound and light

Brianna Heaphy
May 30, 2014
Class: F

Speed of Sound and Light                                                            
          Football Field

Measurements
.90
.84
.53
.50
Calculations
Advantage of everyone 
0.6925
Personal Advantage
.858
Convert to distance the sound traveled into miles and average time in hours.
Time: .858= .00023 (.693) =.000019
Distance: 100 yards=300feet=0.018
Measure speed
.018/.00023hrs=78.26 mi/hour
Compare measured value
Speed of sound: 767 mi/hour
The speed of sound is faster than light. All the numbers where different, which meant that the distance changed when divided by your own hours and the average mph. Miles over time will equal mph 947mi/hour. We went out side and calculated how long it would take to hear the sound of two boards being hit together.

Speed of Sound and light
       Water in Tube

A
Letter and tuning fork
A 426
E 320
C 256



B
Length of air column in tube in cm
18.3 cm
8 cm
34 cm

C
Length of air in m
183
.8
.34

D
Wavelength (in M)
0.732
3.2
1.36


E
F (Hz)
426
320
256

F
Wavelength-Frequency=speed
311.832
1024
484.16 

We put water in a tube then we hit a tuning fork with mallet and then put on top of a poll to see where the highest noise would start with the poll going deeper in the water or out of the water closer to the top. 


Speed of light and sound
       Dominoes

When the dominoes where hit over, the line with the dominoes farther away from each other went down slower than the ones with the dominoes where closer together. 
Air travels faster than Gas, liquid, or a solid because there is less blockage