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What is the intensity of a traveling plane electromagnetic wave if Bm is 3.0×10-4 T?

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The index of refraction of benzene is 1.8. What is the critical angle for a light ray travelling in benzene towards a flat layer of water above the benzene?
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Figure depicts a simplistic optical fiber: a plastic core n1=1.58 is surrounded by a plastic sheath n2=1.46. A light ray is incident on one end of the fiber at angle θ. The ray is to undergo total internal reflection at point A, where it encounters the core-sheath boundary. (Thus there is no loss of light through that boundary.) What is the maximum value of θ that allows total internal reflection at A?

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A catfish is 1.50 m below the surface of a smooth lake. a What is the diameter of the circle on the surface through which the fish can see the world outside the water? b If the fish descends, does the diameter of the circle increase, decrease or remain the same?
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Prove, for a plane electromagnetic wave that is normally incident on a flat surface, that the radiation pressure on the surface is equal to the energy density in the incident beam. (This relation between the pressure and the energy density holds no matter what fraction of the incident energy is reflected.)
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Frank D. Drake, an investigator in the SETI (Search for Extra-Terrestrial Intelligence) program, once said that the large radio telescope in Arecibo, Puerto Rico in figure "can detect a signal which lays down on the entire surface of the earth, a power of only one picowatt." a What is the power that would be received by the Arecibo antenna for such a signal? The antenna diameter is 300 mb What would be the power of an isotropic source 9000 ly away that could provide such a signal? A light-year ly is the distance light travels in one year.

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From the figure, approximate the a smaller and b larger wavelength at which the eye of a standard observer has half the eye's maximum sensitivity. What are the c wavelength, d frequency and e period of the light at which the eye is the most sensitive?

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A small laser emits light at power 5.00 mW and wavelength 633 nm. The laser beam is focused (narrowed) until its diameter matches the 1266 nm diameter of a sphere placed in its path. The sphere is perfectly absorbing and has density 5.00×103 kg m-3. What are a the beam intensity at the sphere's location, b the radiation pressure on the sphere, c the magnitude of the corresponding force and d the magnitude of the acceleration that force alone would give the sphere?
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Sunlight just outside the Earth's atmosphere has an intensity of 1.40 kW m-2. Calculate

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d Brms  for sunlight there, assuming it to be a plane wave.