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Snell's Law
Applet showing refraction from medium 1 to medium 1, refractive indices and incident angle can be altered.
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Polarization of light
This wave diagram shows the effect of rotating two polarizers on an incident beam of white light. Includes a thorough description.
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Diffraction Grating
A diffraction grating is the tool of choice for separating the colors in incident light.
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Bragg's Law
The condition for maximum intensity contained in Bragg's law allows us to calculate details about a crystal structure, or if the crystal structure is known, to determine the wavelength of the x-rays ...
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Blackbody Radiation
Blackbody radiation refers to an object or system which absorbs all radiation incident upon it and re-radiates energy which is characteristic of this radiating system.
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Refraction of light
An animated wave diagram showing how an incident wave is refracted for a variety of angles of incidence, and a variety of materials. The wavelength can also be varied, but on the diagram this has NO ...
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Compton Scattering
Arthur H. Compton observed the scattering of x-rays from electrons in a carbon target and found scattered x-rays with a longer wavelength than those incident upon the target.
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