Optical path length is the equivalent distance travelled in air..the video makes us think it's the distance travelled in the medium which is not true...if the wave can cover a distance d in a medium refractive index of n, then the equivalent distance covered is n x d in air. The distance travelled increases as the velocity is increased, but the time taken is the same in both media. Keeping in mind the frequency is constant, the wavelength changes, whereas the number of wavelengths in the time t is the same. Ie; here in time t, the no. of waves is 4 and will be the same in the medium, but the wavelength will be halved in the medium..
Isn't the way the information is presented here highly misleading? from your sketches one would assume that the wavelength changes depending on the index of refraction, which can clearly not be the case due to conservation of energy and real world experience with windows.
Wavelength does change while the light is propagating through the medium. The reason we don't see its color change is bc it goes back to its original wavelength after exiting the medium and before entering our eyes.
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Optical path length is the equivalent distance travelled in air..the video makes us think it's the distance travelled in the medium which is not true...if the wave can cover a distance d in a medium refractive index of n, then the equivalent distance covered is n x d in air. The distance travelled increases as the velocity is increased, but the time taken is the same in both media. Keeping in mind the frequency is constant, the wavelength changes, whereas the number of wavelengths in the time t is the same. Ie; here in time t, the no. of waves is 4 and will be the same in the medium, but the wavelength will be halved in the medium..
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Does light in free space travels 4λ uses the same time as travels 8λ in the n=2 material?
No. But light will have same frequency in both air medium and the medium of index 2
Frequency of light is constant, so in the medium of refractive index 2, it will have half velocity and wavelength
Yes, same time period.
As frequency= reciprocal of time period, and frequency is constant, time period is also constant
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Isn't the way the information is presented here highly misleading? from your sketches one would assume that the wavelength changes depending on the index of refraction, which can clearly not be the case due to conservation of energy and real world experience with windows.
Wavelength does change with refractive index.
Wavelengths do change but frequency is constant
Wavelength does change while the light is propagating through the medium. The reason we don't see its color change is bc it goes back to its original wavelength after exiting the medium and before entering our eyes.