Chapter 34: Answers to Stop to Think Questions and Odd-Numbered Exercises and Problems

Stop to Think Questions

  1. 1. c. The light spreads vertically as it goes through the vertical aperture. The light spreads horizontally due to different points on the horizontal lightbulb.

  2. 2. c. There’s one image behind the vertical mirror and a second behind the horizontal mirror. A third image in the corner arises from rays that reflect twice, once off each mirror.

  3. 3. a. The ray travels closer to the normal in both media 1 and 3 than in medium 2, so n1 and n3 are both larger than n2. The angle is smaller in medium 3 than in medium 1, so n3>n1.

  4. 4. e. The rays from the object are diverging. Without a lens, the rays cannot converge to form any kind of image on the screen.

  5. 5. a, e, or f. Any of these will increase the angle of refraction θ2.

  6. 6. Away from. You need to decrease s′ to bring the image plane onto the screen. s′ is decreased by increasing s.

  7. 7. c. A concave mirror forms a real image in front of the mirror. Because the object distance is s≈∞, the image distance is s′≈f.

Exercises and Problems

  1. 1.

    1. 3.3 ns

    2. 0.75 m, 0.67 m, 0.46 m

  2. 3. 5.4 m

  3. 5. 30°

  4. 7. 9.0 cm

  5. 9. 433 cm

  6. 11. 1.4

  7. 13. 23.3°

  8. 15. 76.7°

  9. 17. 3.2 cm

  10. 19. 1.52

  11. 21. Inverted

  12. 23. 15 cm in front of lens, upright

  13. 25. −68 cm

  14. 27. 2.0 m

  15. 29. 2.0 cm

  16. 31. 30 cm, 0.50 cm

  17. 33. b. 40 cm, 2.0 cm, agree

  18. 35.

    1. 47 cm, same side

    2. 6.3 cm, inverted

  19. 37. b. −8.6 cm, 1.1 cm, agree

  20. 39. Inverted

  21. 41. Upright

  22. 43. 6.4 cm

  23. 45. 1.7

  24. 47.

    1. 2cos−1(n2nair)

    2. 82.8°

  25. 49.

    1. 87 cm

    2. 65 cm

    3. 43 cm

  26. 51. 4.7 m

  27. 53. 1.46

  28. 55. 30°

  29. 57. 35°

  30. 59. 2.7 m/s

  31. 61. 15.1 cm

  32. 63. 17 cm

  33. 65. 2; 0.50 cm, inverted; 8.0 cm, inverted

  34. 67.

    1. 5.9 cm

    2. 6.0 cm

  35. 69. 4f

  36. 71. 16 cm

  37. 73. 20 μm/s away from the lens

  38. 75. 13 cm

  39. 77. 1.2 m

  40. 79. 2.8 cm

  41. 81.

    1. n1cx2+a2 + n2c(w−x)2+b2

    2. dtdx=0=n1xcx2+a2−n2(w−x)c(w−x)2+b2