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These areas of constructive interference would appear as larger sparking on the detector ring. Using this
knowledge, he could walk between corresponding nodes to calculate the wavelength, which he found to be 3m,
much longer than that of visible light. These waves were radio waves.
Using the wavelength and frequency data, he found the velocity of the wave to still be equal to the speed of light.
Thus proving light was an EM wave. And that the EM waves formed a spectrum.
Describe Hertzs observation of the effect of a radiowave on a receiver and the photoelectric effect he produced
but failed to investigate
During his experiments, Hertz would enclose the apparatus in a dark glass case to make observations easier.
However upon doing this, he found that the sparking reduced. When the case was gradually removed, and the
detector was directly irradiated by light, he found the sparking increased once more. He had inadvertently
discovered the photoelectric effect.
A beam of monochromatic light falls onto a cold, perfect black body and imparts 0.1mW of power to it. If the wavelength of
the light is 5x10-7m, calculate:
A) The frequency of the light
=
=
= 6 1014
5 107
B) The energy per photon for the light
= = 6.63 1034 6 1014 = 3.978 1019
C)