5. Exercises

4. Absorption and scattering

Absorption photometry (1/6)

Task and solution:
The single beam photometer: May that work?

Worksheet 4.1:
A home-made absorption photometer

Supplementary notes on the worksheet 4.1

Task and solution:
Relative and absolute errors of the absorption coefficient

Worksheet 4.2:
An absorption photometer for teaching in schools

Supplement 4.4, page 2:
Polarisation of Electromagnetic Waves: Jones Vectors and Jones Matrices

Task: Light through a $\lambda /2$ retarder

See the task and solution on this page:
earthspectra-c04-s04-p01-t.html

Supplement 4.5, page 2:
Polarisation of Electromagnetic Waves: Stokes Vectors and Müller Matrices

Task: Light through a $\lambda /4$ retarder

See the task and solution on this page:
earthspectra-c04-s05-p01-t.html

Supplement 4.8:
An experiment on the scattering of light by water

Experiment: Scattering of a laser beam by water in a cuvette.
Calculating the brightness at the eye and the signal of a detector.