Light Energy
What is light ?
Einstein theory of light
Light was called an electromagnetic wave or, more
generally, electromagnetic radiation. In 1905, the
wave nature of light was an established,
incontrovertible fact.
What is light ?
• Light is nothing but a form of energy of renewable. Light energy + Heat energy = Solar energy. In
before some years, renewable forms of energy had increasing vigorously.
• Have you ever wonder why?
• Renewable electricity generation increased by almost 3%, mainly because of new wind and solar PV
projects completed over the past year and because renewables are generally dispatched before other
sources of electricity.
• The sun may be the only source of solar energy. NOOOOOO! The sun is the main source of energy.
• But before that, we need to see what is solar energy?
• Solar energy is radiant light and heat from the Sun, and can be harnessed using a range of
technologies such as solar heating, solar photovoltaic and solar thermal electricity. Solar energy is a
renewable source of energy which is big enough to wean off fossil fuels.
• The universe appears that it lies in the fact that they generate electricity from the sun.
• What did actually made the solar energy to electrical energy.?????
• Photovoltaics are the solar cells that produce electricity directly from the sun!!
• It is one of the commercially more mature renewable energy technologies.
Photovoltaics
relating to the production of electric
current at the junction of two substances
exposed to light.
"photovoltaic cells“. It is basically, made
up of silicon.Which can be used in
producing computer chips.
The history of Photovoltaic.
• In 1839 Edmund Becquerel, the French experimental physicist, discovered the
photovoltaic effect while experimenting with an electrolytic cell made up of two
metal electrodes placed in an electricity-conducting solution which current
generation increased when exposed to light.
• In 1921, Photoelectric effect theory was explained by Albert Einstein, which he
won a noble prize. The first orbiting Astronomical Observatory launched with a
photovoltaic array of 1kW in 1966.
The basics of light energy
• Light travels in a straight line.
• Light can be reflected and refracted.
• Light can be bend in space.
• Light travels at a different speed at a different
medium.
• Transparent, translucent and opaque.
• Plane mirror, concave lens, convex lens.
• The conversions of both light in electricity
(solar cells) and electricity into light (EL) of
various wavelength from ultraviolet through
to infrared in a quantum system.
Transparent, translucent and opaque.
Transparent:
The whole beam of light can passes through easily. E.g. Glass
Translucent:
Only a part of light can passes through. E.g. Paper
Opaque:
No light can pass through it. E.g. Rock
Why do we need light, what’s the reason?
• Gives the sensation of light.
• Can be absents of darkness
• Light travels in a straight line, hence it is called as rectilinear propagation of light.
• Light can cast a shadow by opaque object.
• Light doesn’t any medium to travel with.
• Light can travel can travel in vacuum.
• We receive light from space.
Solar Energy
• Solar energy is the least polluting and most inexhaustible of all known
energy source.
• Even the other ‘renewable’ energy source have some significant
drawbacks.
• Today the researchers are just beginning to tap its potential.
• While solar energy has been available to mankind since prehistoric
times.
• Creating a system that provides a reliable energy supply from solar
energy can be very technical and difficult task.
• However, not all solar energy systems are difficult to create or use.
Terms related to reflection of light.
Point of incidence The reflection of a light ray at a surface obeys
Point of incidence is the point at which the incident ray strikes the the two following laws of reflection:
surface, is the point of incidence.
The angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of
Normal reflection.
The perpendicular drawn on the surface at the point of incidence, is The incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal, all lie
in the same plane.
called the normal.
Incident ray Mirror
The ray of light that strikes the surface is called as incident ray.
Reflected ray
The ray of light which is returned back into the same medium, after Reflection
Incident angle
striking the reflecting surface, is called as reflected ray. angle
Laws of refection.
The reflection of a light ray at a surface obeys the two following laws of reflection:
The angle of incidence is always equal to the angle of reflection.
The incident ray, the reflected ray and the normal, all lie in the same plane.
Refraction
Refraction is the bending of light rays when passing through a surface between one transparent material and another. It
is described by Snell's Law:
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Convex lens
Concave lens
Concave lens
Concave lens
Semi sphere
Convex lens lens
Prism lens Glass
block
lens
Real and virtual image
1. A virtual image is an image which cannot be obtained
on a screen.
Real Image Virtual Image
It is always inverted.
2. A real image is an image that can be obtained in a It is always erect
screen
The rays of light after It is always formed behind
reflection at a point. the mirror
It is formed in front of a
mirror
Lateral Inversion
The left and right of a mirror image appear
reversed (lateral inversion) because of how
we perceive the mirror image. ... The
phenomenon where your left appears as the
right, in a mirror is referred to as Lateral
Inversion.
