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The Mechanical Universe 40
Optics |
Many properties of light are properties of waves, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
Ch Frame Code Title
1 A Opening Sequence
2 02479 G Light, Electric And Magnetic Field
3 05649 V An Eye Examination
4* 07187 A Light Waves
5 08976 V Eye Chart
6 09279 H Galileo, His Telescope, Microscope,Sketches
7 12161 V Eyeglasses
8 13402 A Refraction And Dispersion
9 14849 H Newton At His Desk
10 15134 H Newton's Book On Optics
11 16149 H Huygen's Wave Theory Of Light
12* 16783 A Light Seen As Electric And Magnetic Waves
13* 17183 A Water Waves
14* 17517 A Mechanical Waves
15* 18098 A Electromagnetic Waves
16* 18984 A Electromagnetic Spectrum
17 23353 A Lines Of Force About Electric Charges
18 23848 H Faraday And His Lines Of Force
19* 24146 A Oscillating Electric Charges Creating Waves
20 26038 H Maxwell's Electromagnetic Spectrum
21 26680 H Huygen's Light Waves
22 26994 H Young's Proof Of Light As A Wave
23* 27462 A Young's Idea Of Wave Interference
24 28757 H Thomas Young
25 29352 E Young's Interference Experiment
26* 30432 A Young's Interference Experiment
27 31212 E Young's Interference Fringes
28* 31767 A Diffraction
29 31903 V Shadows
30* 32077 A Diffraction
31 33405 V Light Casting Shadows On Wall
32 33875 V Lake Scene
33* 34534 A Light Waves Encountering Electric Charges
34 37309 V Woman's Reflection In A Mirror
35* 38644 A Refraction In Glass; Least Time Principle
36 41074 V An Eye Examination
37 42093 E Dispersion
38 42683 H Galileo At His Desk
39 42998 H Newton In His Study
40* 43453 A Reflecting Telescope
41 44028 E Reflecting Telescope
42 44442 V Radar Screen
43 44983 A Optical Reflector Telescope
44 45563 V Eye Chart
45 45653 A Stars And Galaxy
46 46193 G The Luminiferous Ether
48810 credits
Several of the animations are the computer equivalent of a ripple tank - these are great (eg Chs 4,26,28,33,35,40)
Ch 2 contains the statement that energy "sloshes back and forth" between the electric and magnetic fields in a traveling light wave
Ch 4 - "ripple tank" for waves generated by a point, 5 points (quasi-plane wave), interference, difffraction
Ch 33 - reflection, "ripple tank" scattering from a point, several points in a line; least time for reflection
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Prepared by Jeff Rudd, 1999
Revised by Laura Schmidt, 2007