Physics Class of November 4, 2008

Ohh obligatory blogging, thou art a piercing blow to the heart that effortlessly causes one to cease his/her endeavours in academics -_- Today was the first Tuesday of the month, so common sense dictates that it was a half day.

To succinctly summate our activities in class, we worked on a chart for the "Wave Theory of Light" labelled Appendix 2.4: Chart for Evaluating the Models of Light. From here, we were tasked to define supporting and counter arguments that dealt with the given "phenomena." This task was very self-evident. After that, we were to do questions 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the "The Nature of Light: Part 2 The Wave and Particle Models of Light Problems" booklet.

Here are the solutions predicated on my answers.

9) refer to that golden yet vague visual representation below

10) refer to that golden yet "inaccurate" image up above

11a) The wave theory says that the wavelength and speed both decrease for frequency remains the same despite the change in mediums. In this case, the mediums were from deep water to shallow water. Read this my fellow minions and acquaintances (just joking), light is slower in SHALLOW water as opposed to light DEEP water. Based on that, one can easily conclude that the wavelength and speed is lower in shallow water.

b) The Wave Theory suggests light moves slower in denser mediums while the Corpuscular Theory suggests light moves faster in denser mediums.

12) Mighty small !

And as well, the "BLM 2.10 : Contributions to the Determination of the Speed of Light" paper was to be handed in. This was the sheet where we were to entitled to choose a certain contributor to write about. From there, we were to fill out the chart.

Test Next Week Too ! Goodbye !

i choose you.... caaamy....