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Chapter 24: Electromagnetic Waves and Nature of Light

This document provides a problem set for a General Physics 2 course covering electromagnetic waves and the nature of light. The problem set contains 8 physics problems relating to topics like the speed of light, ultraviolet wavelengths, microwave frequencies, optical properties of materials, reflection and refraction at interfaces, and polarization. It lists the most essential learning competencies as relating electromagnetic wave properties to propagation through different media, explaining total internal reflection and dispersion, and solving problems involving reflection, refraction, dispersion, and polarization.

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Chapter 24: Electromagnetic Waves and Nature of Light

This document provides a problem set for a General Physics 2 course covering electromagnetic waves and the nature of light. The problem set contains 8 physics problems relating to topics like the speed of light, ultraviolet wavelengths, microwave frequencies, optical properties of materials, reflection and refraction at interfaces, and polarization. It lists the most essential learning competencies as relating electromagnetic wave properties to propagation through different media, explaining total internal reflection and dispersion, and solving problems involving reflection, refraction, dispersion, and polarization.

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GENERAL PHYSICS 2

SECOND SEMESTER SY 2020-2021


PROBLEM SET 11
Name of Learner:
Grade Level/Section: Date:

Chapter 24: Electromagnetic Waves and Nature of Light

Most Essential Learning Competency (MELC)


1. Relate the properties of EM wave (wavelength, frequency, speed)
and the properties of vacuum and optical medium (permittivity,
permeability, and index of refraction)
2. Explain the conditions for total internal reflection
3. Explain the phenomenon of dispersion by relating to Snell’s Law
4. Calculate the intensity of the transmitted light after passing through
a series of polarizers applying Malus’s Law
5. Solve problems involving reflection, refraction, dispersion, and
polarization in contexts such as, but not limited to, (polarizing)
sunglasses, atmospheric haloes, and rainbows

Direction: Solve each problem carefully and completely. Write your solutions on
a separate sheet of paper. Observe proper reporting of numerical answers.
1. How much time does it take light to travel from the moon to the earth,
384,000 km?
2. Light from the star Sirius takes 8.61 years to reach the earth. What is the
distance from earth to Sirius in kilometers?
3. There are two categories of ultraviolet light. Ultraviolet A (UVA) has a
wavelength ranging from 320 nm to 400 nm. It is necessary to produce
vitamin D. UVB, with a wavelength in vacuum between 280 nm and 320 nm,
is more dangerous because it is much more likely to cause skin cancer.
a. Find the frequency ranges of UVA and UVB.
b. What are the ranges of the wave numbers for UVA and UVB?
4. Scientists are working on a new technique to kill cancer cells by zapping
them with ultra-high energy (in the range of 1012 𝑊) pulses of light that last
for an extremely short time (a few nanoseconds). These short pulses
scramble the interior of a cell without causing it to explode, as long pulses
would do. We can model a typical such cell as a disk 5.0 mm in diameter,
with the pulse lasting for 4.0 ns with an average power of 2.0 × 1012 W. We
shall assume that the energy is spread uniformly over the faces of 100 cells
for each pulse.
a. How much energy is given to the cell during this pulse?
𝑊
b. What is the intensity (in 𝑚2 ) delivered to the cell?
c. What are the maximum values of the electric and magnetic fields in
the pulse?
5. The microwaves in a certain microwave oven have a wavelength of 12.2
cm.

General Physics 2
Second Semester SY 2020-2021
Jensen C. Edos | Teacher
a. How wide must this oven be so that it will contain five antinodal
planes of the electric field along its width in the standing-wave
pattern?
b. What is the frequency of these microwaves?
c. Suppose a manufacturing error occurred and the oven was made 5.0
cm longer than specified in part (a). In this case, what would have to
be the frequency of the microwaves for there still to be five antinodal
planes of the electric field along the width of the oven?
6. The vitreous humor, a transparent, gelatinous fluid that fills most of the
eyeball, has an index of refraction of 1.34. Visible light ranges in wavelength
from 380 nm (violet) to 750 nm (red), as measured in air. This light travels
through the vitreous humor and strikes the rods and cones at the surface of
the retina. What are the ranges of
a. the wavelength
b. the frequency
c. the speed of the light just as it approaches the retina within the
vitreous humor?
7. The indexes of refraction for violet light (𝜆 = 400 𝑛𝑚) and red light
(𝜆 = 700 𝑛𝑚) in diamond are 2.46 and 2.41, respectively. A ray of light
traveling through air strikes the diamond surface at an angle of 53.5 to the
normal. Calculate the angular separation between these two colors of light
in the refracted ray.
8. A layer of liquid sits on top of the horizontal surface of a transparent solid.
For a ray traveling in the solid and incident on the interface of the two
materials, the critical angle is 38.7.
a. For a ray traveling in the solid and reflecting at the interface with the
liquid, for what incident angle with respect to the normal is the
reflected ray 100% polarized?
b. What is the polarizing angle if the ray is traveling in the liquid?
CLOSURE
If you are reading this statement, this is because you are either done on answering
the activity sheet or clueless on what to do with the problems. Either way, you still
have a lot to learn when studying physics, and this means more adventures and
discoveries in the mysteries of life using physics. For now, you learned the
concepts on Electromagnetic Waves and Nature of Light.

General Physics 2
Second Semester SY 2020-2021
Jensen C. Edos | Teacher

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