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Light, waves and sound
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Matter and atoms, laser
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Time, space, and GPS
lighting, waves, sight
and hearing;
1/light and lighting;
the lighting alters our
perception of things; if something is enlightened only partially, a part
being hidden in the shade, this thing can be seen and
identified in a very different way according to the
witnesses. The lighting of the morning is not that of the evening and our
perception of the things is much more dependent on the environment than
we générally think, especially when
the light dwindle at sunset or also with a
back-light. It is very often dependent on our concerns or what one thinks or
would like to see.
A flash blinds us and persists on
our retina after its disappearance. This luminous persistence opened the way
for the cinema without which any animated
representation had been more complex; a film projects
successive still images (25 a second
by the TV, 24 by the cinema) and our eyes bind
them in a kind of "dissolve"
movement. The first movement was created with kinds of revolving
lanterns, then with notebooks of drawings whose one released quickly the
pages. The cinema made it possible to show for the first time the gallop of
a horse and its movement of legs. The camera allows
to observe what one cannot see because of his speed: incredible are the
effects of a simple water drop which fall into water, digs a basin, makes
flash back a geyser and rebounds by forming other drops. The fastest cameras
seize a ball of rifle crossing the target.
The periodic shot of sight is
has connections with the
periodic lighting which one names stroboscopy. The stroboscopy
effect often makes doubt people at
the movie or television when they see
the reverse rotating of the carriage
wheels in the western. The wheels turn well
forwards and it is a true carriage but as the camera "sees" only briefly the
wheels each 25th of second, if a bar of the wheel did
not have time to replace or slightly exceed the precedent at the time of the
following slide shot, the whole of the bars will have
seemingly moved back between two successive shots;
the wheel will thus turn reverse at the projection!
this phenomenon can be verified
with a neon tube, which ignites and dies
out at the frequency of the electrical current, that
is to say 50 times a second; make a disc of paper or light paperboard of 20
or 30 cm diameter; trace on the circumference short
lines spaced by a few millimetres while
following the rays (drawn from the center,
that is to say, fan like). Point it
with a pin on a small plank and launch it
highly in rotation, close to a lighting neon. While slowing down, you will
see the disc stopping, then rotating
reverse and starting again
forward. This principle is used to observe a too fast mechanical
phenomenon while lighting it periodically (example,
the setting of the idling of cars
engines).
Thin liquid films; the light
is both disconcerting and is disturbed in
a good many cases: the
effects of irisation of a gasoline or oil film on the
water, like those of the soapy water bubbles
(*),
are produced by the smoothness of the film, which supports (favours)
the propagation of such coloured component of
the light or another. (*)
the tickness is thus theorically that of a molecule and this is how
one measured for the first time the dimension of a molecule, the physicist
having had the presentiment that an oil film (of olive), did not stop its
expansion until it had spread out all his molecules). The magic takes a lot from the science. The
thin films can not only reveal effects of irisation, but also of black
zones; this phenomenon, related to the disappearance of any light, is from
now on observable publicly in certain exhibitions of
magic (a tended vertical framework of a thin liquid film). Let us retain
simply that any luminous frequency "is disturbed" by the fluid which it
crosses if the thickness of this fluid is as thin or
thinner as the undulation produced by its frequency
(lenght of wave). Many things depend on the relative dimension of
the objects: you can cross a brook by spanning it, but not a
torrent which does not contain sufficient emerged
stones. It is a little the case of our black light with its film, obstructed
by a too much low thickness enabling him to circulate
usually. Measurements; to make a measurement,
one needs an apparatus much finer than the object to be measured: one
cannot measure an asperity only sensitive to the finger with
a meter of dressmaker, nor to appreciate one micron with a tenth
mm caliper rule.
For measuring an electrical current, it is
necessary that the measuring apparatus takes only very little electricity on
this current. To measure the distance covered by a car with
a radar, it is necessary that the speed of the car is negligible
compared to the wave speed
emitted by this one. One cannot measure an electronic circuit (very low
consumption by the components) with a voltmeter adapted to the current of
220 volts and more because it will alter too much it,
if not destroying what one wants to measure.
An electronic microscope can
no longer show anything when the size
of the object to be measured is too close of the "size" (wavelength)
of the light which light it. One then
"touches" the surface of the matter with a
point to palpate and "see" his
form. But which stylet is finer than a fine light beam amplified by
electronics ? a very sharp "stylet"
made with some atoms whose size will make it possible to follow the shape of
the molecules or cluster of atoms !
2/
the sound and the light which arrive and which from go away.
The sound of a car approaching
is not the same that the one when it
is
passing and moving away. However, at constant speed, it emits
the same noise; a phenomenon, related at the speed and the relative position of
the observer thus intervenes: it is the compression or the stretching of the
sound waves. Men like to imitate the passage of a
car: when the car approaches, the sound waves that it emits appear acuter (compressed
waves, higher frequency, shorter wavelength); it shifts
progressively towards
bass tone when the car moves away (stretched waves,
lower frequency, longer wavelength),
like this : iiiiiiuuuuuuoooommm ; this effect named Doppler Fizeau can be used to calculate the speed of a body
moving; it makes it possible to know if something approaches or moves away
and at which speed; if the car turns around you, there is no effect. Applied
to astronomy, this effect makes it possible to evaluate the displacement of
the celestial bodies or the galaxies: as for the sound which
from trebble becomes bass,
the color of the light changes: there is displacement towards the
high frequencies, side (ultra)violet if the light
approaches, and toward lower
frequencies, side (infra)rouge, if it moves away. Point out you to them
colors of the rainbow, purple indigo blue, green yellow orange and red, that
is to say shorter wave (high frequency) towards the longer wave (weaker
frequency).
Not to associate the principle Doppler Fizeau the
conventional radar; this one sending of the impulses and measurement the
time spent after their return by reflexion on the accused object (atmospheric
car, plane, layers.). Knowing the propagation velocity of the wave of the
radar and time put to suit it return of the emitted wave, one can know the
distance covered in this same time, i.e. speed. The laser radar is more
precise because more rapid and easier to point on a reduced surface (the
traditional radar aspergeant a little everywhere). The laser beam makes the
return ticket ground the moon in two seconds approximately (at the speed of
the light, that is to say 300.000 kilometers a second).
The matter ; Atoms, electrons and
electricity; evey
bodies (matters) of our planet consist of atoms, considered as being
the ultimate fraction of the matter, although they themselves are split
in other chunks! ; they never were visualized and thus remain a
theory: on this level, the matter is only vacuum because an atom could
be represented by an orange or a soccer ball in the center of the place
of the "la Concorde" in Paris, with balls or
table tennis balls spinning on various spheres
up to the periphery. These imaginary spheres on
which each electron revolve are called layers or
energy levels). Aoms differ by their core and
the number of electrons which revolve (turn) around.
Théorically, the more significant the number of atoms is and the
more the core consequently is . The atom is in
electric balance, the positive loads contained in the core compensating
those, negative, of the electrons. If electrons are torn off, those
unceasingly will seek to find "a core of reception"; as for the core,
it becomes positive and seeks to collect solitary electrons (known as
"free"). Thus is born the static electricity (by tearing off electrons
by friction), just as the electrical current, made up of free electrons
moving of a pole (+) to another (-).
picture above : a
regular ignition plug of car engine. It is the white shiny ceramic part !
magnified, it is a chaos of blocs.
Here are some elements
known with their number of atoms and their atomic mass (not directly in
relation to the density, but that gives
an idea). Notice
that the number of electrons is not enough to define a body (density,
gas, liquid, solid state); iridium (77 electrons)
is an extremely hard metal whereas mercury (80 electrons) is liquid.
simple hydrogen (H) 1 electron and atomic mass 1 - lithium (Li) 3 and
6,9 - sodium (Na) 11et 23 - magnesium (Mg), 12 and 24,3 - potassium
(K), 19 and 39,1 - calcium (Ca) 20 and 40,1 - titane(Ti) 22 and 47,9 -
Vanadium (V) 23 and 51 - chromium (Cr) 24 and 52 - iron (Fe) 26 and
55,8 - cobalt (Co) 27 and 58,9 - nickel (Ni) 28 and 58,7 - copper (Cu)
29 and 63,5 - krypton (Kr) 36 and 83,8 - cadmium (Cd) 48 and 112,4 -
tin (Sn 50 and 118,7 - iodine (I) 53 and 126,9 - xenon (Xe) 54 and
131,3 - tungsten (W) 74 and 183,9 - platinum (Pt) 78 and 195,2 - but (With)
79 and 197,2 - mercury (Hg) 80 and 200, 6 - lead (Pb) 82 and 207,2 -
radium (Ra) 88 and 226 - uranium (U) 92 and 238,1 - the plutonium (Pu)
94 (heaviest, most toxic, longest (hundreds of years); mortal
quantity = 1 millionth gram (1 micro gram).
Atoms core contained
also other particles, of which neutrons, often more numerous than
protons souvent en plus grand nombre que les protons.
Uranium 235 (92 protons)
only differ from uranium 238 (always 92 protons) by the number
of neutrons (three more). It is said that they are isotopes. It was
thought that the particles of the core were organized in layers (levels),
like the electrons, but the odd shapes ofectoplasms which one now
allot to the cores seems to go against this
theory.
Research on
the atoms does not cease evolving and the model admitted until now is
well discussed by certain reports: for example, there would be
atoms which would not have a proton, what would
call into question all the electric system of balance between core and
electrons admitted until now. The cores themselves pose problem because
their forms would be varied so much that they would resemble sometimes
at molecules ! Some cores are abnormally
large like that of the lithium 11 which, with its 3 protons (and 8
neutrons), is as large as that of uranium with its 92 protons
! .. and heavy atoms, in
theory unstable as if they hardly could gathering the
whole of their particles, would be sometimes very stable.
The
discovery of infinitely small does nothing but start.
Step after step, atoms seem to evolve towards a another world. Effects
of scale are frightening.
Comparative
scale: an atom measures 1 meter divided by 1 followed
by 10 zeros (1m /10000000000,
that is also an Angströn
(see top of page)
also said 1 power (- 10). The core approximately would be 1
divided by 1 followed by
15 zeros and the electron
still much smaller.
There are million of million cells
for thousandths of gram of matter, whereas a "typical" molecule itself
consists of 10 follow-up of 25 zero, elementary
particles (the atoms) !
Said also 10 power 25.
The
laser light;
it is a light wave creates by the man and who does not have any
existence in nature, which is an exceptional
fact; simplified explanation: the light we
can perceive is emitted (lamp, sun) or is
reflected (the moon, all beings and materials of our planet). Any
emitted light is produced by multiple luminous points (sources), for
example all along the filament of a lamp; this light comes in fact
from the atoms (here those of the filament)
inside which one or more electrons fall on a lower level
of rotation (around the core of the atom,
see Physics 1, matter and
atoms). Each point, that is to say an
atom, emits an electromagnetic wave without
being concerned with what does the nearby point:
it emits its wave at the time when its atoms fall a level under because that corresponds to a loss
of instantaneous energy and as "nothing is lost, nothing is created,
all changes", the loss of energy is found in the form of an emission
of luminous energy.
But what our laser? eh well, if one forces
all these electrons to fall together at the same time (let us suppose all along the filament), one
creates a light of which all the multiple rays vibrate
at the same pace (are synchronized). This light, known as
laser, cannot be produced by a filament because one cannot control it,
but the principle remains. Its advantage is to keep
very concentrated and extremely powerful; so its range is considerable
because its beam does not widen - or very little - at
the contrary of that
of a bulb. The laser light, according to its
power, cleans pieces of art, resticks a
retina or cuts a crystalline lens, cuts out all materials, probes the
atmosphere and detects the layers of air or the gases by reflexion,
measure the distance from our planet to the moon
or between two walls, gives a level
or is used for weapons to
aimed a target .. Too much concentrated
and covering a tiny surface, it does not light but
our eyes must be absolutely protected.
The light known as laser produced by the lasers diode is not a true
laser light (small flashlights, twinkling objects children, garlands of
Christmas, luminous postings..).
Living being
matter ; human
body: 60 % of water, 39 % of lipids (greases), glucides (sugars),
protids and 1 % of rock salt: the quantity of water varies according to
moments or hot weather (one swells in the summer), from where
fluctuations of weight. Composition of the body (elements in kilo); for
an individual of 70 kg: oxygenate 45,5 - carbon 12,6 - hydrogen 7 -
nitrogenizes 2,1 - calcium 1. Trace elements (in grams):
magnesium 39 - iron 3 - zinc 2 - manganese 0,2 - copper 0,15 - iodine
0,03 - traces of nickel, cobalt, aluminium, molybdenum, vanadium, lead,
tin, titanium, brominates.
the
number of cells is out of our understanding ;
the sole white globule
(lymphocytes) would be 1000
billionss. They would produce 100
billions of billions (10 power 20)
of moleculas
d’antibody.
I heard to quote a figure for
the number of our cells :10 power 13, that is to say the number 10
followed-up by 13 zeros. But it is enough to take again the preceding
estimates to see the anomaly: the “already” 1000 billion white globules,
that is to say 10 and 12 zeros ! it seems that facing too high numbers,
everyone is mislaid. That is also to compare with another estimate:
“millions and millions of cells in a thousandth of gram of matter” (which
matter?), that is to say for a 60 kilo being, 60.000.000 milligrams
multiplied by “millions and millions”, at random taken 6 million
million = 6.000.000.000 .000 multiplied by our 60.000.000 milligrams = 36
follow-up by 19 zeros !!
.it is well
beyond !
Any creation of
the ground begins its life with only one cell, a grain. For the mankind,
it is the ovule. One can't understand how the cells can reproduce and
especially be different starting from “special cells”, they are able to
produce any type of cell.
Any creation of the earth
begins its life with only one cell. This cell, a “seed”, an
“egg” is already a being which goes, to some
extent, while developing and by creating the whole of animalcules
and required functions, to form a colony, a swarm predetermined
: a whale, a flea, a
human. For the mankind, the seed, the egg, it is the
ovum. One does not understand how the cells can
reproduce and especially be different, starting
from “cells stock”, able to produce any type of cell.
Some cells are intended to disappear, but one cannot however
remove them without deteriorating the processing
of creation. Some transmit codes without error, others not.
In a laboratory, one
studies the reproduction of the simplest primitive life : the worm; in
fact, they are tiny worms, whose speed of reproduction per self cutting
(cut in two) of each new worm, is impressive.
Space-time. It is a
concept which does not prevent us yet from sleeping.
Time is a relative and variable concept, at least in its perception, each
one of us admits that; less undoubtedly when one is
young and that it seems stretching, more when one gets old and it seems
accelerating. That it could depend on speed
is another business: here comes the explanation of
French professor Jacquard: a train leaves Marseilles going to Lyon, at this
moment, the pendulums of the two stations and the watch of the traveller
indicates the same hour (with a diabolic precision).
Arrived in Lyon station, the watch of the traveller does not
indicate any more the same hour but that of the station of Lyon! it is
in negligible delay. Good, of how much? for the
distance and the speed considered, it is not observable, not more than in a
plane while flying all around the earth; it is a division comprising so much
zeros at the divider than it is better to forget it.
Explanation: the speed has compress the time (the traveller got less aged
compared to those which did not travel). Try now a
space flight in our galaxy, at a speed close to that of the light (300.000
km/sec), the phenomenon must become definitely perceptible.
Could we so travel for a cure of rejuvenation ? alas not, one
gains only comparing to those which did not move. I said it, all is relative
! have a nice day.
GPS,
an
example for the Einstein theory. The "Global
Positioning, System" is based on measurements from several satellites, which
it picks up waves (at least three sources for satellite radio triangulation,
much more for better accuracy). The measures may not be good if time is
measured throughout and at the same time, with great precision (same
time everywhere). However, consistent with the theory of relativity stated
for the first time by Einstein, the velocity shifts time. This explains
the difference of the clocks "in the air" compared to "ground" which are
not at the same speed (while in each place, they always mark the correct
time!). ,
we must rectify. In other words, we can say that one is obliged to
disrupt the same and extremely accurate clocks. Or those of the soil, or
those "who go fast."
Physics 3 (the world and the life,
viruses, cells ..)