Homework #8 due Wednesday, September 30

1. A spherical lightbulb with a diameter of 3.20cm radiates light equally in all directions, with a power of 4.50 W.
(a) Find the flux at the surface of the bulb.
(b) Find the flux 7.20 m from the center of the bulb. (Here the light bulb may be treated as a point source.)
(c) At this 7.20 m distance, a lens is set up with its optical axis aligned with the bulb. The lens has a circular cross-section with a diameter of 15.0 cm and a focal length of 35.0 cm. Find the diameter of the image of the bulb.
(d) Find the flux of the image.

2. In this problem, you will sketch the wave described by E = 10 sin(kx - wt + ε), where ε = initial phase of the wave. Take t = 0 and make a plot of the two waves corresponding to ε = 0 and ε = π/2. Take various values of x to make the plot (x = 0, λ/4, λ/2, 3λ/4, λ). What does the phase-shifted wave look like?

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