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PHY138 – Waves, Lecture 7 Today’s overview

Explore the ray model of light, specular vs. diffuse reflection, Snell's Law, total internal reflection, and applications of medical fiberscopes. Learn about forming virtual images and optical fibers in this lecture.

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PHY138 – Waves, Lecture 7 Today’s overview

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  1. PHY138 – Waves, Lecture 7Today’s overview • The Ray Model of Light • Reflection • Refraction • Total Internal Reflection • Medical Fibrescopes

  2. Reading Assignment This week’s reading assignment from the text by Knight is: Chapter 23, Sections 23.1-23.6 Suggested Chapter 23 Exercises and Problems for Practice: 11, 17, 19, 27, 39, 49

  3. Message from Dr. Savaria…. (again) • If you have a conflict with the Waves Test at 6:00-7:30 PM on Tuesday Dec.6 you must: • Send an email to phy138y@physics.utoronto.ca confirming that you wish to re-register, if you registered for the alternate sitting of Test 1. or • Visit April Seeley in MP129 or MP302 to register for the first time you will write in an alternate sitting. • The deadline for confirming / registering is today by 5:00PM!

  4. Wave Fronts and Rays • Wave fronts connect points of equal phase on an extended wave. • Rays show the propagation direction of waves, and are always perpendicular to wave fronts. • Rays travel in straight lines • At a boundary they can reflect (bounce off) and refract (penetrate) the different medium. • Ray angles are measured relative to surface normal.

  5. The Law of Reflection

  6. Specular vs. Diffuse Reflection • Specular Reflection • The surface is flat at distance scales near or above the wavelength of light • It looks “shiny”, like a mirror.

  7. Specular vs. Diffuse Reflection • Diffuse Reflection • The surface is rough at distance scales near or above the wavelength of light • Almost all surfaces reflect in this way.

  8. How an image is formed

  9. Virtual Image in a flat mirror • Light rays emerging from an object obey the law of reflection for the specular surface of a mirror • Our mind imagines that the rays emerge from points beyond the mirror. • This thing beyond the mirror is called an image. No light rays actually pass through the image, so it is “virtual”. • It is convenient to describe the size and location of the image as if it were an actual thing.

  10. Index of Refraction • v is the speed of light in a transparent medium. • c is the speed of light in a vacuum (c=3.00×108 m/s) • n is a dimensionless constant: n≥1

  11. Snell’s Law of Refraction

  12. Total Internal Reflection • Occurs when n2<n1 • θc= critical angle. • When θ1≥θc, no light is transmitted through the boundary; 100% reflection

  13. An Optical Fibre

  14. Medical Fibrescopes Video-laryngoscopy with a flexible fiberscope

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