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This applet and tutorial illustrates Young's double slit experiment. It is a little slow to load and cycle new values, but is beautifully laid out and colorful.
| Cutnell & Johnson PHYSICS 5/e Chapter Twenty-Seven: Interference and the Wave Nature of Light |
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[Young's Double Slit] Interference
http://members.tripod.com/ This applet and tutorial illustrates Young's double slit experiment. It is a little slow to load and cycle new values, but is beautifully laid out and colorful. |
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Bragg's Law and Diffraction...
by Konstantin Lukin, from the SUNY Stony Brook Project Java site.
http://www.journey.sunysb.edu/ This applet and tutorial illustrates Bragg X-ray diffraction for crystals. |
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Optics Highlights:An Anecdotal History of Optics from Aristophanes to Zernike By L.S. Taylor, Electrical Engineering Dept., University of Maryland. http://www.ece.umd.edu/~taylor/optics.htm This site is an Anecdotal History of Optics ranging from ancient history through the telescope, wave optics and ending with some roots of modern optical systems. The gallery contains a list of various scientists involved in research on optics with vignettes and pictures. |