Video tutorial:

• Electromagnetic waves. 

• EM spectrum, energy, momentum. 

• Electric field and magnetic field. 

• Doppler shift. 

• Polarization. 

Laboratory / Activity

The purpose of this laboratory is to study the diffraction pattern from a laser light incident upon a thin wire.

Lab Results

The modern double-slit experiment is a demonstration that light and matter can display characteristics of both classically defined waves and particles; moreover, it displays the fundamentally probabilistic nature of quantum mechanical phenomena. A simpler form of the double-slit experiment was performed originally by Thomas Young in 1801 (well before quantum mechanics). He believed it demonstrated that the wave theory of light was correct and his experiment is sometimes referred to as Young's experiment or Young's slits. The experiment belongs to a general class of "double path" experiments, in which a wave is split into two separate waves that later combine into a single wave. Changes in the path lengths of both waves result in a phase shift, creating an interference pattern. 

Laboratory / Activity

The purpose of this laboratory is to