Lecture 29: Snell's Law, Refraction, Total Reflection, Dispersion, Prisms, Huygens's Principle, The Illusion of Color, The Weird Benham Top, Land's Famous Demo
author: Walter H. G. Lewin,
Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
recorded by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: Oct. 10, 2008, recorded: February 2002, views: 24817
released under terms of: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
recorded by: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
published: Oct. 10, 2008, recorded: February 2002, views: 24817
released under terms of: Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike (CC-BY-NC-SA)
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Very nice lecture, recommend to anyone who wants to broad their school knowledge.
Index of refraction_blue and red
Dear Sir, First of all, my sincere thanks for sharing such a beautiful class. Now I'm confident that I'll remember these concepts which are demonstrated practically by Prof Lewin. One thing I noticed, rather want to confirm my understanding, is: Professor explained using a slide that as frequency of EM wave increases, index of refraction, n decreases. However few minutes after it was mentioned that index of refraction for blue light is more (1.343) than that of red (1.331). Blue color frequency is more than that of red. Then how this can happen ? Kindly clarify.
Thank you once again for the useful presentation.
Sincerely Kiran
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prof.lewin i want to thank you for your activity to change the mass of the bob .
prof.lewin i want to thank you for your activity to change the mass of the bob .
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