Practice Problems
Thin Film Interference Soap Bubbles
Directions:
On this worksheet you will be investigating the basic properties of
thin film interference
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Question 1
A thin soap bubble, n = 1.38, is filled with air. Since the medium outside the bubble is also air, at which of the interfaces (air-soap and soap-air) would the light undergo a 180° phase change upon reflection?
soap-air
air-soap
at both interfaces
at neither interface
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Question 2
What is the wavelength of green, 551-nm light as it travels through the film?
551 nm
399 nm
760 nm
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Question 3
At what minimum non-zero thickness of the film will the intensity of the green light reflected back into the air be a maximum?
200 nm
100 nm
138 nm
276 nm
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Question 4
At what minimum non-zero thickness of the film will the intensity of the same green light reflected back into the air be a minimum, or experience destructive interference?
200 nm
138 nm
276 nm
100 nm
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Question 5
In general, when green light is removed from white light, the soap bubble would appear to be which color?
cyan
grey
yellow
magenta
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Question 6
What is the frequency of the green light as it travels through the soap film?
1.2 x 10
20
hz
3.95 x 10
14
hz
7.51 x 10
-4
hz
5.44 x 10
14
hz
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Question 7
If the soap film were instead specified to be 595 nanometers thick, which wavelength in the visible spectrum would be canceled?
1.19 x 10
3
nm
8.62 x 10
2
nm
1.64 x 10
3
nm
4.11 x 10
2
nm
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