how do we explain the behavior of light? lesson 5 – observing beyond our senses: inquiry drives...
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How do we explain the behavior of light?
Lesson 5 – Observing Beyond our Senses: Inquiry Drives Technology
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Light Through Milk Fat?
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Beer’s Law
LIGHT
The amount of light absorbed depends on many factors, including:
thickness of sample
and type of material
COLOR ,
When shining
through a sample
some of the light
is absorbed
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mostly the reds!
What if we replace the red
light taken from the sun?
What color does seawater absorb?
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Ligh
t abs
orbe
d in
sea
wat
er
Blue is absorbed least
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Ligh
t abs
orbe
d in
sea
wat
er
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So absorption of light is…
…described by Beer’s Law
…transfer of energy to the medium through which it travels
Energy enters as light, but less emerges as it is converted to heat
light energy in
lightenergy out
heat energy
absorbed= +
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Scattered light on a surface:
Scattered light through a solution:
What about scattered light?
bounces back inall directions.
bounces inall directions…
…so some light makes it through!(you can see it)
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Blue Skiescome from scattering BLUE light
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Blue light is scattered the most by the atmosphere
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Since blue is scattered most in the atmosphere, sunsets are anything but blue, appearing reddish-orange.
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Sunsets are anything but blue
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Instead of air in the atmosphere, let’s look at milk fat in
water
+
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0.2 mm diameter FOV
Homogenized milk contains many small globules of fat
Each mL of 2% milk contains about 10 million globules
…this “population density” is about 1010 globules/L
Visible light is scattered nicely by these globules
Why milk?
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How does the glob population relate to the amount of light scattering?
Higher density of particles leads to more scattering, and less light transmitted
through the solution...
low transmissionmeans
high concentration
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So if we shine a light through a tank with some milk fat…
…and measure the light that makes it through…
…we can determine the concentration of fat globules!
light
Tank of milk and water
light sensor