Exercises Geometric Imaging 1
Exercises Geometric Imaging 1
Exercises Geometric Imaging 1
Two parallel beams of light are reflected off the two symmetric faces of the prism.
a. Show that the angle between the two reflected beams is twice the angle
between the two reflecting surfaces.
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5 Atmospheric refraction
Make the simplifying assumption that the Earths atmosphere is uniform (thus having a
uniform index of refraction), and that it extends to a height h. Beyond that, we assume
that there is vacuum.The Earths radius is R.
nR
R
arcsin
R+h
R+h
= arcsin
6 Air mass
Air mass is the optical path length through Earth's atmosphere for light from a celestial
source. It is normally given relative to that at the zenith, so by definition, the airmass at
the zenith is 1. The airmass (m) increases as the angle (z) between the source and the
zenith increases. In the text for this course we have used a very simple approximation:
m=
1
cos( z )
Young (1994)
Good luck!