Providing the basis of nineteenth century physics, Young's Double Slit Experiment proved that light was made up of waves. During Thomas Young’s time, it was very difficult to describe the behavior of light. The predominant theory was that light was made up of particles. However, in his experiment, Young was able to observe the interaction of light waves when passed through two slits, showing the wave-like nature of light. This report will cover the reasons for Young’s experiment, the experiment itself, and its implications.
The question Thomas Young sought to resolve was whether light was made of a stream of particles or waves. Sir Isaac Newton, a strong proponent of the particle theory, showed that a white light beam passing through angled prisms would split into a spectrum at the first prism and become white light again when passed through the second prism. This proved the particle theory by disproving the wave theory, giving support to Newton’s corpuscular (particle) theory of light. However, Christiaan Huygens, a Dutch mathematician, disagreed with Newton's theory and argued tha...
During the crisis of modern science in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the postulates of early scientific discoveries had been refuted. In one of science’s most defining moments, an undisturbed photon of light was found to exhibit both wave-like and particulate qualities. The relationship between these two qualities would later be termed complementarity by Niels Bohr, one of the scientists at the forefront of this discovery. As Thomas S. Kuhn notes in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, “Before [the theory of quantum mechanics] was developed by Plank, Einstein, and others early in [the twentieth] century, physics texts taught that light was transverse wave motion” (12). So staggering was this discovery that in his autobiography, Albert Einstein recounts, “All my attempts to adapt the theoretical foundations of physics [to the new quantum knowns] failed completely. It was as if the ground had been pulled out from under one, with no firm foundation to be seen anywhere upon which one could have been built.” Not surprisingly, this arrest of the fundamental postulates of classical physics sparked a reevaluation of the “world view” by the ...
The author tells of how waves are effected by quantum mechanic. He also discusses the fact that electromagnetic radiation, or photons, are actually particles and waves. He continues to discuss how matter particles are also matter, but because of their h bar, is so small, the effects are not seen. Green concludes the quantum mechanics discussion by talking about the uncertainty principle.Chapter 5: The need for a New Theory: General Relativity vs.
This optical amplification is started from some emission but it is not exposed yet until Albert Einstein proposed in 1916. After that, the things became more seriously after 1954 when Townes and Arthur Schawlow also with Gordon Gould proposed laser action, then not long after 4 years, in 1960, first laser was build by Theodore Maiman. Besides that, Gordon also derived the word laser from “light amplification by the stimulated emission of radiation”. The laser developer look amplification is very important as a step to build a laser, so these people make one advance to develop amplifiers from semiconductor laser to be used as light sources. This is because of semiconductor have high gain. Laser made up with high gain and low noise is categorized as the best laser.
My breaching experiment involved three social norms. These social norms forced people to be in an uncomfortable situation and make a decision as to how they should react to it. The first social norm I experimented with was sitting next to someone in an uncrowded movie theater. I chose this because of the awkwardness it caused. At all three of my trials, occurring from 1-9 pm, there were over fifty empty seats at Carmike on February 21st. The next social norm I analyzed was sitting in someone’s assigned seat. This was chosen because I felt it would be engrossing to observe the different reactions fellow high school students retaliated with, all being different races. At Liberty High School I took someone’s assigned seat five different times,
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On his first attempt, he failed to create a deflection by sending the rays through two metal plates, but he later realized it was because the pressure inside the tube was too high and the gas was neutralizing the electric forces. He managed to create a higher vacuum and then was able to see a significant deflection. Since the rays leaned towards to positive plate, this showed him that they were negatively charged. This gave him a method of finding the ratio between mass and charge and the velocity of the “particles.” He announced the existence of corpuscles later called electrons at the Royal Institution in 1897 and many were skeptical at first.
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Optical computing means performing computations, operations, Storage and transmission of data using light, instead of silicon chips. Optical computers are not completely discover. Optical, computing generally means that the optical manipulation of discrete manipulating data. The hope for optics lies in doing things that are provably impossible for electronics. This paper is consist of different types of optical computing (mainly digital analog and quantum), how the networks has been transported in optics (since 1990, SDH, and SONET specifications have been extended based upon the demand for the transport of new tributary signals and also based on new capabilities provided by the evolution in component technology), architecture of optical computing. Optical computing is safe for human use because of free from electrical short. The basic requirements of an optical computing architecture for information processing are: (i) optical sources (ii) input information for processing (iii) a method of modulating the sources to carry the input information and finally (iv) an information processing or decission making
In 1801 Thomas Young provided some very strong evidence to support the wave nature of light, he placed a monochromatic light in front of a screen with two slits cut into it, and observed an interference pattern, only possible if light was a wave. In 1965 Richard Feynman came up with a thought-experiment that was similar to Young’s experiment. In Feynman’s double-slit experiment, a chosen material is fired at a wall which has two small slits that can be opened and closed at will – some of the material gets blocked and some passes through the slits, depending on which ones are open.
For instance, throughout the nineteenth century, it was correctly believed that light was a wave. If light were a wave like all other waves, it must have a medium through which to propagate through. This medium was called the ether, a substance which was everywhere throughout the universe. If this hypothesis were true one would be able to calculate the velocity of the Earth through the ether. Many experiments were conducted to determine this velocity the most famous one being the Michelson-Morley experiment.