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Bending Light, Fiber Optics and Optical Phenomena in Nature

Bending Light, Fiber Optics and Optical Phenomena in Nature. The double rainbow!!!. Partial Reflection & Refraction. Sometimes when you look out a window you see outside and you see your reflection at the same time

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Bending Light, Fiber Optics and Optical Phenomena in Nature

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  1. Bending Light, Fiber Optics and Optical Phenomena in Nature The double rainbow!!!

  2. Partial Reflection & Refraction • Sometimes when you look out a window you see outside and you see your reflection at the same time • This depends on the angle of incidence as well as the relative indices of refraction of the two media. • Consider air to water: light traveling direction at the water (at 90º) will go straight through, however as the angle of incidence increase more light is reflected rather than passing straight through

  3. Scuba diving • Because at large angle of incidence most of the light is reflected off the water when you are scuba diving light appears to be coming through a hole above you at the surface of the water

  4. Water and refraction • Even though you know water is clear, you have difficulty seeing things farther away from you in the water. • This is because when you look farther away you increase the angle of incidence which causes more reflection and blocks your view into the water.

  5. Critical angle & Total Internal Reflection • The angle of incidence that produces a refracted ray at an angle of 90º from the normal • It has the symbol <c • When the angle of incidence is greater than <c you get total internal reflection and all light is reflected back not passing through the medium.

  6. Changing the direction of light • We can control light by putting the medium borders at large angles of incidence so that we get total reflection. • Bike reflectors and optical fibers are examples- with bike reflectors light will always bounce back the way it came

  7. Fiber Optics Total internal reflection occurs all the way through the fibre so light travels quickly --telecommunications uses fiber optic cable to send information quickly --the medical field uses fiber optics in two ways, one to light up the area through endoscope (sending a tube into the body) second it uses fiber optics to send back images that the doctors can analyse. Non invasive

  8. Rainbows and double rainbows

  9. Sun dogs • Similar to rainbows, but instead of water droplets it is ice crystals refracting sunlight. • The most stunning sun dogs occur on cold clear mornings or evenings

  10. Apparent depth

  11. Shimmering and mirages • Shimmering small scale • Mirage-large scale • Simmering is the apparent movement of objects in hot air over objects and surfaces • Mirages are the bending of light rays passing through layers of air that have extremely different temperatures. Since you are used to thinking that light travels in a straight line you interpret the origin of the light being on the ground when it is really the sunlight being refracted upwards.

  12. Mirages

  13. Homework • Case study Pg 472 and 473 • Pg 475 # 1-7

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