Wednesday, November 9, 2016

Exam 2 review

Exam 2 topics:


Energy
Basics of flight; Bernoulli effect


waves
- wavelength
- frequency
- speed
-amplitude
- crests and troughs

wave speed = frequency x wavelength
(Note that the wave speed is the speed of light when you are talking about electromagnetic waves.)

mechanical vs. electromagnetic waves

harmonics on a string - "standing waves"

music - octaves, the next note on the piano (1.0594)

Doppler effect
- red shift, blue shift

light reflection

light refraction

lenses and mirrors (convex and concave)

focal length/point

predicting light paths (when light is reflected or refracted)

electromagnetic spectrum - radio, micro, IR, visible, UV, X, gamma


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