Chapter 3
Experimental Properties of Light

See also Krane, Chapter 3

Radiation from a Heated Solid (Plasma)

  • Distribution
  • The Greenhouse Effect
  • Rayleigh-Jeans, Wien, and Planck

    • References to Krane's textbook:   Continuum radiation law, 77-83

    Photoelectric Effect

  • A year to open the door

    • References to Krane's textbook:   photoelectric effect, 70-7

    Compton scattering

  • Energies and wavelengths
  • Conservation of momentum and energy
  • Solution of equations
  • 90o scattering
  • Compton uncertainty

    • References to Krane's textbook:   Compton scattering, 83-6

    X-rays

  • Bremstrahlung and characteristic
  • Applications
  • Vacancy cascades
  • Crystal diffraction

    • References to Krane's textbook:   Bremstrahlung, 86-9;   characteristic X-rays and Moseley's law, 247-50

    Pair creation

  • Bubble chamber evidence
    References to Krane's textbook:   Pair production, 89

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