Waves and Grains : : Reflections on Light and Learning / / Mark P. Silverman.
Mark Silverman has seen light perform many wonders. From the marvel of seeing inside cloudy liquids as a result of his own cutting-edge research to reproducing and examining an unusual diffraction pattern first witnessed by Isaac Newton 300 years ago, he has studied aspects of light that have inspir...
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1. Introduction: Setting the Agenda
- PART ONE: REFRACTION
- Chapter 2. Following the Straight and Narrow
- Chapter 3. How Deep Is the Ocean? How High Is the Sky? Imaging in Stratified Media
- PART TWO: DIFFRACTION AND INTERFERENCE
- Chapter 4. Dark Spots-Bright Spots
- Chapter 5. Newton's Two-Knife Experiment: The Hyperbolic Enigma
- Chapter 6. Young's Two-Slit Experiment with Electrons
- Chapter 7. Pursuing the Invisible: Imaging without Lenses
- PART THREE: POLARIZATION
- Chapter 8. Poles Apart: The Mysteries of Light Polarization
- Chapter 9. The State of Light
- PART FOUR: REFLECTION AND SCATTERING
- Chapter 10. The Grand Synthesis
- Chapter 11. New Twists on Reflection
- Chapter 12. Through a Glass Brightly: "Fresnel Amplification"
- Chapter 13. A Penetrating Look at Scattered Light
- PART FIVE: PLAYING WITH WAVES
- Chapter 14. Voice of the Dragon
- PART SIX: SCIENCE AND LEARNING
- Chapter 15. A Heretical Experiment in Teaching Physics
- Chapter 16. Why Brazil Nuts Are on Top: Physics and the Art of Writing
- Chapter 17. What Does It Take ... ?
- Index