ASTRONOMY 161 Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
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ASTRONOMY 161Introduction to Solar System Astronomy
Class 9
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LightMonday, January 29
“Look, but don’t touch.”
- Astronomers’ Motto
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Light: Key Concepts
(1) Visible light is just one form of electromagnetic radiation.
(2) Light can be though of as a wave or as a particle.
(3) Light forms a spectrum from short to long wavelengths.
(4) A hot, opaque object produces a continuous blackbody spectrum.
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(1) Visible light is just one form of
electromagnetic radiation.
The universe contains electrically charged
particles: electrons (-) and protons (+).
Charged particles are surrounded by electric
fields and magnetic fields.
Fluctuations in these fields produce
electromagnetic radiation.
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Visible light is a form of electromagnetic
radiation -
- but so are
radio waves,
microwaves,
infrared light,
ultraviolet light,
X-rays, and
gamma rays.
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(2A) Light can be thought of as a wave.
Wave = a periodic fluctuation travelling through a medium.
Ocean wave = fluctuation in the height of water.
Sound wave = fluctuation in air pressure.
Electromagnetic wave = fluctuation in electric and magnetic fields.
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Wave Characteristics:
(1) Wavelength, (lambda): distance between
wave crests (units = meter).
(2) Frequency, (nu): number of crests passing per
second (units = 1/sec = Hertz).
(3) Amplitude, a: height of wave crests.
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Speed of light:
Speed of wave, c, equals wavelength times
frequency (units = meter/sec):
cx
The speed of light in a vacuum is always
c = 300,000 km/s
(186,000 miles/sec).
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(2B) Light can be thought of as a particle.
Light shows some properties of a wave:
diffraction and interference.
It shows some properties of a particle:
the photoelectric effect.
(In the photoelectric effect, particles of light, called
photons, kick electrons out of atoms.)
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How sound waves would travel without diffraction:
How sound waves actually travel with diffraction:
Diffraction happens for light, too!
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Photons
The energy of a photon is related to the frequency
of a wave:
E = hE = energy of photon
= frequency of light
h = Planck’s constant (A Small Number)
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(3) Light forms a spectrum from short to
long wavelength
Visible light has wavelengths from 400 to 700 nanometers. [1 nanometer (nm) = 10-9 meter]
Color is determined by wavelength:
Blue: 480 nm
Green: 530 nm
Red: 660 nm
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The complete spectrum of light
Gamma rays ( < 0.01 nanometers)
X-rays (0.01 – 10 nm)
Ultraviolet (10 – 400 nm)
Visible (400 – 700 nm)
Infrared (700 nm – 1 mm)
Microwaves (1 – 100 mm)
Radio (> 100 mm) Energy
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Visible light
occupies only
a tiny sliver
of the full
spectrum.
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Earth’s atmosphere is transparent to visible light
and some microwaves and radio waves.
To observe efficiently at other wavelengths, we
must go above atmosphere.
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(4) A hot, opaque object produces a
continuous blackbody spectrum of light.
The universe is full of light of all different
wavelengths. How is light made?
One way to make objects emit light is to heat them
up.
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An object is hot when the atoms of which it is made are in rapid random motion.
The temperature is a measure of the average speed of the atoms.
Random motions stop at absolute zero temperature.
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Temperature Scale:
In physics and astronomy, we use the Kelvin scale, which has a zero at absolute zero.
Kelvin = Celsius + 273
Water boils: 373 Kelvin
Water freezes: 273 Kelvin
Absolute zero: 0 Kelvin
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What is a “blackbody”?
A blackbody is an object that absorbs all the light that hits it.
Heat a blackbody: it emits a continuous spectrum of electromagnetic radiation.
The total amount of radiation and the wavelength of radiation depend only on temperature (Max Planck).
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Kelvins)(in re temperatu
emission maximum ofth wavelengh
nm 000,900,2
max
max
==
=
T
T
Wavelength of maximum emission is
inversely related to temperature.
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Blackbody curves:
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Solar spectrum:
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Taking the
temperature of
stars!
Betelgeuse: a reddish
star (cooler).
Rigel: a bluish stars
(hotter).
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Total energy radiated is STRONGLY dependent on temperature.
F = T4
F = energy radiated per second per square meter
T = temperature (in Kelvins)
= a universal constant
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Few closing questions:
1) Which one is hotter – a red-hot piece of metal, or
white-hot piece of metal?
2) Could we have radio eyes?
3) If we double the temperature of a blackbody, how
will the energy per unit area it produces change?
4) If we double the temperature of a blackbody, how
will its maximum intensity shift in wavelength?
5) Are there green stars? (tricky)
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