{"id":3152,"date":"2009-07-16T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2009-07-16T08:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=3152"},"modified":"2009-07-16T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2009-07-16T08:00:08","slug":"one-for-the-hotshot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3152","title":{"rendered":"One For the Hotshot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/pop_quiz_michelson_interferome.php\">Uncertain Principles:  Pop Quiz: Michelson Interferometer<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>When there&#8217;s no light on the viewing screen, we have light going into the interferometer, but no light coming out. What happened to the light?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It&#8217;s important to note a clarification Chad gives in the comments<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>To clarify (or maybe confuse) things a bit: this is a hypothetical idealized Michelson interferometer in which the beams have zero divergence. Thus, you don&#8217;t get a ring pattern, just a single spot of light.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Until reading that I wasn&#8217;t liking any of the answers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/principles\/2009\/07\/pop_quiz_answer.php\">Pop Quiz Answer<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Though I didn&#8217;t comment, I did choose the right answer.<br \/>\n<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The underlying principle is that energy has to be conserved \u2014 anytime you get destructive interference, there <em>must<\/em> be some other place that is seeing constructive interference.    The key to any configuration is deducing out where that is.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Uncertain Principles: Pop Quiz: Michelson Interferometer When there&#8217;s no light on the viewing screen, we have light going into the interferometer, but no light coming out. What happened to the light? It&#8217;s important to note a clarification Chad gives in &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/3152\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}