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11 Cards in this Set
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The origin of the decibel
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Alexander Graham Bell, inventor
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n1sin1 = n2sin2
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willebrord snell
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The pitch the observer hears is higher than when the source is at rest if the sound is moving towards the observer
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Doppler effect
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Developed the basic equations for all of electromagnetism
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James Clerk Maxwell
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Double-slit experiment, demonstrated interference
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Young
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Each slit is a source of a wave, developed the concept of wavelets, Snell's law follows from this
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Huygen
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The polarizing angle when unpolarized hits water at which the resulting light is polarized 100% parallel to the water
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David Brewster
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Developed the interferometer to make really precise measurements, proved that the earth was not moving in ether
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Albert A. Michelson
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Helped Michelson with the ether experiment
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Morley
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Proposed the criterion for image separation, that two images are just resolvable when the center of the diffraction disk of one image is directly over the first minimum in the diffraction pattern of the other (resolution limit)
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Rayleigh
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Disk extends to the first dark ring in the middle of a circular aperture thing
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Airy
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