PHIL 2170 Lecture Notes - Voyeurism, Zoophilia, Dennis Amiss

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False conceptual analyses of the means-end form cause confusion about the value of sex to the individual. If we think sex is only to express love, things get included/excluded, and in the end instead of defining sex, we only get what we use it for love). Causes confusion to those who value sex: taking us away from culture (morals, values) and into the realm of the individual. Get rid of content, culture and society which give us morals, values, etc. Sexual desire, by contrast, is desire for another which is nevertheless essentially self- regarding, it bears little relation to those other values (goldman 284: morals don"t come into the picture until we have more than one person involved. Talking about feeling/function at the level of the individual: not moral in itself because it was unlike other morals no moral principle we can apply to the act itself, but the context. Morality determined by context, not by its nature.

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Huygens' principle (first described by the Dutch scientist Christiaan Huygens in 1678) uses geometry to determine the shape of a wavefront at a time t, given some initial wavefront at an earlier time. This can be constructed by imagining that the initial wavefront is a source of wavelets that propagate from each point at the speed of light. From this principle, one can determine the angles of reflection and refraction by considering the speed of light at each point on the wavefront. In this problem, we will explore some of these concepts.

Part A

First, let's look at a plane wave that is incident on a flat piece of material with an index of refraction n. Part of the light is transmitted through the material and part of it is reflected. For the moment, let's just look at the part that is transmitted. At time t=0, the wavefront is a distance d away from the surface of the material. At time t=t₁, the wavefront is at the position of the material interface. Use the Huygens' principle to determine how far into the material (d') the wavefront has propagated by time t=2t₁.

Express your answer in terms of the variables n, t₁, and the speed of light in a vacuum c.

Note that there would be no change in the direction of the wavefront at any point because the wavefront encountered the material interface at the same time at all points. Thus, all of the individual wavefronts all propagated at the same speed, thereby maintaining the flat wavefront.

Now, instead of having a flat wavefront propagating normal to the material interface, we have a flat wavefront propagating toward the material at an angle of 55° to the axis perpendicular to the material interface. In this part, we will look at the relative positions of a few points—A, B, and C—on the wavefront to illustrate Huygens' principle. (Intro 1 figure) Point C touches the vacuum/material interface at time t=0 whereas point B is a distance d and point A is a distance 2d away from the interface.

Part B

What is the time t_B it will take for point B of the wavefront to encounter the vacuum/material interface?

Express your answer numerically to two decimal places in units of t₁ (the time it takes light to travel a distance d in a vacuum).

It should be noted that the accuracy of the method increases the smaller the distance is before making a new wavefront and redoing the wavelets. If you tried to just draw a large wavelet from point B, then it would hit the surface after only traveling a distance d. This large wavelet would make it difficult to visualize how to add up all of the other wavelets to make a coherent wavefront. As a result, one should just draw a line perpendicular to the wavefront at point B until it hits the surface, at which point the wavelets will change owing to the new index of refraction.

Part C

How far did point C go into the material interface in the time t=t_B that it took for point B to get to the interface? For this part we are looking for the distance traversed by the point C in the material (d_C).

Give your answer in terms of the time t_B, c, and n.

Part D

What is the new angle θ at which point C of the wavefront is propagating (relative to a line perpendicular to the vacuum/material interface)? Try to use the fact that you have a spherical wavefront propagating from t=0 at the point where C met the vacuum/material interface until time t_B when the wavefront at point B reached the interface.

Express your answer in terms of inverse trigonometric functions and n.

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DUE DATE: 12 00 noon Monday. Dec 6. 2010. The problems on this assignment are quite word because strong direction is being given to Students in how to proceed. Two problems will be selected at random for marking. Percentage polarization. It is useful to characterize partially polarized light in terms of its "percentage polarization". A light beam of constant intensity Io. is allowed to fall at normal incidence on an "ideal linear polarizer" (a linear polarizer is "ideal" if it panes all light polarized parallel to the polarizer's axis, and stops all light polarized perpendicular to that axis.) As the ideal polarizer is rotated continuously (see Figure 8.1; about an axis perpendicular to its plane, the transmitted intensity I passes through successive maximum and minimum values (denoted by I max and I min). The percentage polarization of the incident light is denned to be Find the percentage polarization measured in this way for the following light beams: "Unpolarized natural light" tor which I max = I min = Io/2. A beam of light. Initially unpolarixed. that has been passed through an ideal linear polarizer before being measured for percentage polarization. A beam of light, initially unpolarizcd, that has been passed through a non-ideal polarizer that (in terms of light intensity) transmits 70% of light polarized parallel to its polarizing axis and 20% of light polarized perpendicular to its polarizing axis. Circularly polarized light. (Circular polarization means that at any given fixed observation point In the beam, the E-vector has constant magnitude but rotates at the frequency of the electric field oscillations so that the tip of the vector describes a circle in the zy plane (perpendicular to the light ray at the point in question). Elliptically polarized light for which the tip of the E-vector moves on an ellipse in the x y plane, defined by where Ax and Ay are the amplitudes of the oscillating Ex and E y components of the electric field vector, and is the phase difference between those oscillations. NOTE: Do your calculation for the special case Ax = 2Ay and e =pi / 2. [(8.2) taxes a particularly simple form when e = pi / 2.]

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