CD Assignment 5 is Due

Waves 1
Reminder
Experiment 4/H, Ray optics

In Lab. session

(Collecting First report)

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 Introductory Physics/ Week10
Unit 3 / Topic7 Waves and Optics

Chapter 12: Sound

Sections/ Topic Description:

12-6 Interference of Sound Waves and Light Waves

Chapter 24: The Wave Nature of Light

Sections/ Topic Description:

24-3 Young’s Double Slit Experiment as evidence that

light is a wave

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 Interference of Sound Waves
When two waves simultaneously pass through the same region of space
they interfere with one another. For example, sound waves of the same
wavelength from two speakers:

A & B : in phase ( both forming crests or troughs simultaneously)

C : Crest (trough) of one wave with a crest

(trough) of another wave:
constructive interference

D : One crest with another trough:

destructive interference

NOTE:
interference would not be produced
if sound did not exhibit wave like
properties.

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 YOUNG’S DOUBLE- SLIT EXPERIMENT
By studying the double-slit experiment,
we can show that:
the interference effect will occur;
therefore light behaves as wave:

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If light is a wave, light passing through one of two slits should
interfere with light passing through the other slit
The interference occurs because each point on the screen is
not the same
distance from both slits. On the viewing screen we can have

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 CONSTRUCTIVE or
DESTRUCTIVE
interference depending on the
pass length difference.

Two traveling waves are

waves shown undergoing
(a) constructive interference,
(b) destructive interference

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 Graph of intensity of light in the interference
pattern
Figure 24-9 Graph of the intensity of light in the
interference pattern

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 Conditions for destructive and constructive
interference:

From the geometry of graph we can write:

d sinθ = m λ,
λ,
m =0,1,2,3…..[constructive
=0,1,2,3…..[constructive ]

d sinθ = (m +½) λ,
λ,
m =0,1,2,3…..[destructive
=0,1,2,3…..[destructive ]

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 Example:
3.7-
3.7-1) Two loudspeakers are 1.00m apart. A person stands
4.00m from one speaker. How far must this person be from
the second speaker in order to detect destructive
interference when the speakers emit an 1150Hz sound.
Assuming the temperature is 20°
20°C.

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3.7-2) Monochromatic light falling on two slits 0.042 mm
apart produces the fifth-order fringe at a 7.8° angle.
What is the wavelength of the light used?

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 3.7-
3.7-3) The third – order fringe of 650nm light is observed at
an angle of 15°
15° when the light falls on two narrow slits. How
far apart are the slits?

3.7-4) A parallel beam of light from a He-Ne laser, with a

wavelength of 656nm falls on two very narrow slits
0.050mm apart. How far apart are the fringes in the center
of the pattern if the screen is 2.6m away?

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