GRADE 12: WAVES, SOUND AND LIGHT
Section
Sub-section
Huygens' Principle
Introduction
Doppler effect with sound
Introduction
Moving source, stationary listener
General case
Blood flow rates measurements
Doppler effect with light
Introduction
Red shifts and blue shifts
Colour
Dispersion
The visible spectrum
Primary and complementary colours
The colour of objects
2D and 3D wavefronts
Principle of superposition of waves
Diffraction
Interference
Interference effects with light
Interference of light by a double slit
Shock waves
The wave nature of matter
The de Broglie hypothesis
The wavelength of electrons
The electron microscope
General principles of electron microscopy
The scanning electron microscope (SEM)
The transmission electron microscope (TEM)
Differences between TEM and SEM