Astro Cosmo week 5 Tuesday 27 April 2003

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Astro + Cosmo, week 5 – Tuesday 27 April 2003 LIGHT • • •

Astro + Cosmo, week 5 – Tuesday 27 April 2003 LIGHT • • • Star Date Field trip? Light lecture Cel. Nav. : Latitude Thursday midterm quiz in class Thursday workshop options (let’s choose) * calculate Planck mass (Univ. 5 e Ch. 28) * Ch. 6. Telescopes * Ch. 5 Spectra

Chapter 5 The Nature of Light

Chapter 5 The Nature of Light

Calculating the Planck length and mass: 1. You used energy conservation to find the

Calculating the Planck length and mass: 1. You used energy conservation to find the GRAVITATIONAL size of a black hole, the Schwartzschild radius R. 2. Next, use the energy of light to calculate the QUANTUM MECH. size of a black hole, De Broglie wavelength l. 3. Then, equate the QM size with the Gravitational size to find the PLANCK MASS Mp of the smallest sensible black hole. 4. Finally, substitute M into R to find PLANCK LENGTH Lp 5. and then calculate both Mp and Lp.

1. Gravitational size of black hole (BH): 2. R = event horizon The Schwarzschild

1. Gravitational size of black hole (BH): 2. R = event horizon The Schwarzschild radius, inside which not even light (v=c) can escape, describes the GRAVITATIONAL SIZE of BH.

2. Quantum mechanical size of black hole The de. Broglie wavelength, l, describes the

2. Quantum mechanical size of black hole The de. Broglie wavelength, l, describes the smallest region of space in which a particle (or a black hole) of mass m can be localized, according to quantum mechanics.

3. Find the Planck mass, Mp If a black hole had a mass less

3. Find the Planck mass, Mp If a black hole had a mass less than the Planck mass Mp, its quantum-mechanical size could be outside its event horizon. This wouldn’t make sense, so M is the smallest possible black hole.

4. Find the Planck length, Lp These both yield the Planck length, Lp. Any

4. Find the Planck length, Lp These both yield the Planck length, Lp. Any black hole smaller than this could have its singularity outside its event horizon. That wouldn’t make sense, so L is the smallest possible black hole we can describe with both QM and GR, our current theory of gravity.

5. Calculate the Planck length and mass These are smallest scales we can describe

5. Calculate the Planck length and mass These are smallest scales we can describe with both QM and GR.