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Announcements. Homework 5 due Monday Solutions to test are posted near south entrance to Science Lab building (until next test) Second test will be next week (W, Th) Looks like a great weekend for projects! (Due two weeks from today). Spectroscopy. 29 September 2006. Today:.

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  1. Announcements • Homework 5 due Monday • Solutions to test are posted near south entrance to Science Lab building (until next test) • Second test will be next week (W, Th) • Looks like a great weekend for projects! (Due two weeks from today)

  2. Spectroscopy 29 September 2006

  3. Today: • Splitting light into separate colors (wavelengths) • Spectra of thermal light sources • Spectra of nonthermal light sources • Absorption spectra • How does motion of a light source affect its spectrum?

  4. Thermal Light Sources(Hot, opaque objects) • Emit a continuous spectrum (all colors present) • Hotter implies brighter • Hotter implies bluer in color • Brightness & color don’t depend much on what the object is made of • Examples: incandescent light filaments (3000 K); electric heating coils (1500 K); coals in a campfire (1500 K); your body (310 K); the sun minus its outer layers (6000 K)

  5. Graphs of thermal spectrum

  6. Orion star colors

  7. Infrared light is real!

  8. Emission Spectra (“nonthermal”)from hot, transparent gases

  9. Hydrogen emission spectrum(“Balmer lines”)

  10. Rosette nebula

  11. Helix nebula

  12. Emission of spectral lines

  13. Hydrogen energy levels Energy -->

  14. Nonthermal Light Sources(Especially hot, transparent gases) • Emit only a few precise wavelengths (colors) • Temperature matters less than chemical composition • Each element has its own spectral “signature” • Examples: mercury and sodium vapor lights; lasers (just one wavelength); interstellar gas clouds

  15. Thermal source plus cool gas

  16. Absorption lines in sun’s spectrum

  17. Three types of spectra

  18. Spectrum photo vs. graph

  19. What if a wave source is moving? “Doppler effect”

  20. Doppler-shifted absorption spectra % shift in wavelength = speed of source, as % of speed of light

  21. Doppler-shifted absorption spectra % shift in wavelength = speed of source, as % of speed of light

  22. Doppler-shifted absorption spectra Shorter wavelengths implies it’s moving toward us Wavelengths are shifted by about 10 units (Angstroms) out of 4000, or 1 part in 400. Therefore this object is moving toward us at 1/400 the speed of light (750 km/s)

  23. The Physics of Light • Speed = 300,000 km/s • Brightness of a source is measured in watts (a unit of power, energy/time) • Diffraction indicates wavelike behavior • Made of tiny units called photons • Wavelength determines color and photon energy • Hot, opaque object emits continuous spectrum, brighter and bluer if hotter • Hot, transparent gas emits bright-line spectrum • Thermal source viewed through cooler gas has dark-line “absorption” spectrum • Doppler-shifted spectral lines indicate motion of source toward or away from us

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