Discussion 10

1. What happens to produce the dark columns in Young's double slit experiment? The bright columns?
2. What determines if light will pass through a slit in a straight line, or become a spherical emission?
3. Why do thin films produce the rainbow effect of colors?
4. Explain the relationship between resolution and diffraction.
5. What does polarization depend on? Does Sunlight have a polarization?
6. What relationship determines how much unpolarized light passes through a polarized filter? What about already polarized light?
7. How much light passes through two filters whose axes are perpendicular?
8. Where do we encounter naturally polarized light?