Speed of light

their environment to move, stop moving, stay at rest, or change direction. Content: Wind/ physical force:Collected from http://handmadekidsart.com/wind-power-car-races/ -The surface area contacting the wind force will affect the movement. -The high speed of the wind will allow the object to move faster. -The direction of where the wind is coming from is the direction the object will move to. Teacher Intentions: Students will be introduced to the concept of physical forces and have the chance…

Introduction: Have you ever notice a moth circling street light, porch lights, or car lights? Pointless, right? Well, the moths have a very specific reason for why they circle and spiral lights. In Khristo Boyadzhiev’ paper, he shows that the moths take an equiangular spiral path. Moths navigate by a point light source called transverse orientation. This source being the moon which was developed well before humans’ invention of the light bulb. One reason behind the spiraling happens to come from…

disturbance of energy. Sound and light are both disturbances in energy, and they both travel in the forms of waves. While sound travels in a longitudinal wave, light travels through a transverse wave. From a perspective of a human, sound and light on earth is very different compared to sound and light in space. These waves have differences in speed, form, shape, and other properties. Despite many of the differences, sound and light are very similar to each other. Light is a disturbance in…

Santos ACS 5 Janna Corn 18 September 2014 Light Since the first days of the humankind on Earth that was something present and helped them develop their skills to survive. Light, even with a lot of studies about it, continues to be an ambiguous topic to explain. Therefore, most people know that it has uses and a lot of concepts about its functioning or essentially its definition. Many scientists around the world developed concepts to explain what light is. This happened because each of them had…

indicated in fig.2 A light-signal, which is proceeding along the positive axis of x, is transmitted according to the equation : x - ct = 0 _______ (1). Since the same light-signal has to be transmitted relative to K1 with the velocity c, the propagation relative to the system K1 will be represented by the analogous formula x' - ct' = 0 _______(2) therefore: (x' - ct') = λ (x - ct) ______(3). Here λ is constant If we apply quite similar considerations to light rays which are being…

must always result in better performance. Fiber optics proves to be highly effective in its high bandwidth, as it allows on a single fiber to send lots of information/data. Fiber optics carry information between 2 places using entirely optical (light-based) technology. To send information using fiber optics, (eg: a computer) lasers within the computer will convert electrical information…

In the video game Halo, Promethean Vision enables the players to look through solid walls at an object. At first glance, the properties of light as it interacts with most common materials may make this concept seem impossible to recreate in real life. However, by looking further into the physics of optics, the concept of see-through vision may not need to be confined solely to science fiction. Indeed, this technology may be replicable in the real world, to a limited extent, though it may not…

incorporated all of these ideas into my painting due to the fact that they present important concepts in regards to physics phenomena. The emission of light waves from the sun includes the visible light spectrum, so the colors are visible to the human eye. When the waves of light pass through the different layers of the Earth’s atmosphere, the beam of light can strike either an oxygen or nitrogen molecule in the air, and cause scattering the happen. Scattering…

My ears were popping and I was starting to feel light headed as we climbed higher and higher toward Red Rocks Amphitheater. Red Rocks is right outside the edge of the hipster, pot smoking, mile high city Denver. I was going to see the dirty rocking, alternative, up in coming band Cage the Elephant. When you are first entering Red Rocks park everything drastically changes. The sky starts to turn a darker more vivid blue as everything else turns a tint of red form the dust. The mountains around…

Bending light is a very interesting subject, we can learn about all the different densities, wavelengths and angles of light. Trump is very despicable to Mexicans and if he will start a revolution against us, the Americans will be using infra-red light similar to the storm trooper's blaster from Star Wars to take us down. If we can reflect their shots, then we can send those lasers right back at them. My hypothesis states that if we can shine light through multiple transparent objects with…