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什么是 Light waves?

又称: light wave · wavelength of light

Definition 22.1 High School Physics · 第 22 章 — Light as a Wave: Diffraction and Interference

Monochromatic light — one pure color, which no prism can split further (Chapter 2) — is a periodic light wave: it crosses vacuum at c=3.00×108 m/sc = 3.00 \times 10^{8}\,\mathrm{m}/\mathrm{s} and is characterized by its frequency ff or its wavelength in vacuum λ=c/f\lambda = c/f, the crest-to-crest distance of Chapter 20. The eye responds from about 400 nm400\,\mathrm{nm} (violet) to 800 nm800\,\mathrm{nm} (red); white light mixes the whole range.

示例

Example 22.2 (Orders of magnitude)

A helium–neon laser emits red light of λ=633 nm=6.33×10−7 m\lambda = 633\,\mathrm{nm} = 6.33 \times 10^{-7}\,\mathrm{m}, so f=c/λ≈4.7×1014 Hzf = c/\lambda \approx 4.7 \times 10^{14}\,\mathrm{Hz}: no electronics counts that fast — every wavelength in this chapter will be measured by geometry. For scale, a hair (about 70 µm70\,\text{µ}\mathrm{m}) is a hundred wavelengths across. What waves? Not the air: an electric and magnetic field, honestly described in the Year 2 volume; only the wavelength matters below.

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