PH 332 - Study Guide for Final Exam

Everything up until the midterm, plus:

Textbook

12.1 - 12.5 P1, P17 and PM2a

13.1 - 13.6 P1, P3, P6, P8, P13, PM3 and PM4

15.1 - 15.5 P2, P5, P6, P11, P13 and PM3

Specific Topics

Interference, constructive, destructive, path difference, interference pattern, diffraction grating, Snell's

Law of Diffraction, spectrometer, Huygens' Principle, diffraction, resolving power, scattering, Rayleigh

scattering, polarization, unpolarized light, polarizer, analyzer, photoelectric effect, photons, atomic

energy levels, emission and absorption spectral lines, lasers, Einstein's Theory of Special Relativity,

Einstein's Theory of General Relativity and The Doppler Effect.

Problem Solving

1) path difference for two sources of light and an observer

2) Snell's Law of Diffraction

3) resolving power and angle of separation

4) resolving power and wavelength difference

5) Malus's Law