Unit 08: EM Waves, Diffraction, and Friends
Chapter 17, 25.5, 25.6 in Knight Book // Chapter 24, 27, 25.2 in OpenStax Online book
Includes Light Basics, Diffraction, Refraction, Thin Film Interference
Unit Objectives (what you should end up knowing)
Lecture Videos
Duffy Videos
Doc Physics Videos
Full List:
Video Tutorial from Monterey:
Demo Videos (Open University)
Crash Course
Notes
Chapter Summary
Lecture Notes: Waves Refresher | Wave Boundaries | Light | Diffraction | Thin Films | Refraction
Labs and Simulations
Unit Development
Extra Stuff
Other YouTube Videos
Why does light slow down in glass? (Sixty Symbols)
Double Slit Diffraction (Veritasium)
Diffraction of a Single Photon (Veritasium)
Diffraction and Canadian Money (SteveMould)
Simulations
EM Wave Simulation: http://www.surendranath.org/Applets/Waves/EMWave/EMWave.html
Lens Animation: http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=1395.0
Virtual Optics Bench: http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=48
Phet Optics Bench: http://phet.colorado.edu/sims/geometric-optics/geometric-optics_en.html