I am trying to understand when a given object resonates.
For example in the case of mechanical waves when you have 2 same tuning forks and when you hit one the other resonates.
Does this depend on the distance?
Does resonation only occur when the wave is total refracted into an object?
Is their away to determine what objects resonate to what frequencies?
If so is their a difference in the formulas for resonating with mechanical waves as opposed to electromagnetic waves?
I would think the princples of resonation would depend on the energy levels of the atoms that make up the resonating object and the frequency
of the wave. In the case of electromagnetic waves I would guess that if you have a frequency of f which corosponds to an energy = f * h.
Then one of the atoms electron orbital energy state must be the same
as the energy carried by the wave. So as to bump it to another orbital level.
I am thinking that resonation can be descriped by the same means as
what frequency of light gets reflected (i.e what color you see ) as opposed to what frequencies get refracted (i.e goes into the object). Which this can be descriped by absorption spectroscpy.
But now I was think about a black body object that absorbs all frequencies (or wavelength of light ). So does black bodied objects resonate at all frequencies?
Anyway I am getting confused on how you can determine when an object resonates , when it reflects or refracts.
What I believe but could be wrong is an object reflects a wave when their is no corrosponding energy level in the atoms that make up the object so the atom doesn't absorb the photon. And if their is an energy level corrosponding to the waves energy then the atom absorbs the photon and is bumped to the next energy level. But then what contols the angle at which it is refracted. We can determine it from snells law but from an atom point of view what controls the angle that the photon is emited out of the electron at?
Thanks for any help on this question.
For example in the case of mechanical waves when you have 2 same tuning forks and when you hit one the other resonates.
Does this depend on the distance?
Does resonation only occur when the wave is total refracted into an object?
Is their away to determine what objects resonate to what frequencies?
If so is their a difference in the formulas for resonating with mechanical waves as opposed to electromagnetic waves?
I would think the princples of resonation would depend on the energy levels of the atoms that make up the resonating object and the frequency
of the wave. In the case of electromagnetic waves I would guess that if you have a frequency of f which corosponds to an energy = f * h.
Then one of the atoms electron orbital energy state must be the same
as the energy carried by the wave. So as to bump it to another orbital level.
I am thinking that resonation can be descriped by the same means as
what frequency of light gets reflected (i.e what color you see ) as opposed to what frequencies get refracted (i.e goes into the object). Which this can be descriped by absorption spectroscpy.
But now I was think about a black body object that absorbs all frequencies (or wavelength of light ). So does black bodied objects resonate at all frequencies?
Anyway I am getting confused on how you can determine when an object resonates , when it reflects or refracts.
What I believe but could be wrong is an object reflects a wave when their is no corrosponding energy level in the atoms that make up the object so the atom doesn't absorb the photon. And if their is an energy level corrosponding to the waves energy then the atom absorbs the photon and is bumped to the next energy level. But then what contols the angle at which it is refracted. We can determine it from snells law but from an atom point of view what controls the angle that the photon is emited out of the electron at?
Thanks for any help on this question.