LASER AND LIGHT RESOURCE WEB PAGES PHYSICS 111 Laser & Light Prof. M. Azad Islam

INTRODUCTION: POTPOURRI OF LIGHT RESOURCES IN THE INTERNET

OPTICS FOR KIDS http://www.opticalres.com/kidoptx_f.html

A variety of topics in Optics: http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/Default.html#Light_and_Optics

Physics 2000: Go to Table of contents for Java simulations: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

Ancient Egypt: http://eawc.evansville.edu/egpage.htm, http://users.erols.com/zenithco/index.html,

Aristotle: http://www.utm.edu/research/iep/a/aristotl.htm

Plato, Aristotle and other Greek Scholars: http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/%7Ebrian/astro/course/lectures/fall/a200l5.htm

Islamic Civilization: http://eawc.evansville.edu/ispage.htm

http://users.erols.com/zenithco/index.html

Other Islamic Scholars: http://www.astro.uni-bonn.de/~pbrosche/persons/pers_a.html

Alhazen: http://members.tripod.com/~wzzz/HAITHAM.html

http://scienceworld.wolfram.com/biography/Alhazen.html

Rene Descartes: http://www.maths.tcd.ie/pub/HistMath/People/Descartes/RouseBall/RB_Descartes.html

Copernicus and Kepler: http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/%7Ebrian/astro/course/lectures/fall/a200l6.htm

Galileo Galilei: http://www.kingsu.ab.ca/%7Ebrian/astro/course/lectures/fall/a200l7.htm

Shadows: Umbra and Pneumbra

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/shadow/shadow.html

WATER WAVES:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=waves_particles/waves.html

Stadium of people making WAVES:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=waves_particles/stadium_wave.html

WAVE disturbance TRANSVERSE WAVES

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=microwaves/water_rotates3.html

Superposition of two waves

 http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/indexPopup.html

HUYGEN'S Principle:

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/jc/library/24-2/huygens.htm

DIFFRACTION: Bending of light at edge: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/diffraction1.html

YOUNG'S Double slit Experiment: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/diffraction2.html

Constructive and Destructive Intereference: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/diffraction3.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/doubleSlit/doubleSlit.html

http://members.tripod.com/~vsg/interfer.htm

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/interf/interference.html

Single slit diffraction

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/slitdiffr/index.html

Single and double slit diffraction of light

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=schroedinger/two-slit2.html

Diffraction in Nature: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/diffraction0.html

All wavelengths of ELECTROMAGNETIC waves

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=waves_particles/index.html

Visible spectrum: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/light2.html

All alectromagnetic waves: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/light1.html

Propagation of electromagnetic waves

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/emWave/emWave.html

SOUND WAVES: LONGITUDINAL WAVES

Diffraction patterns in two sources in sound waves

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/colorsub.htm

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/waveInterference/waveInterference.html

RADAR OR ULTRASOUND: 4 sources wave-mixing and phase shift

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/parray.htm

Doppler effect in sound

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/colorsub.htm

Doppler effect: two sources

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/sndwav2.htm

Sound & Shockwaves:

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/Doppler/Doppler.html

Sonic Boom: http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/airplane/airplane.html

CHAPTER 3: MODERN THEORIES

Photoelectric effect, De Broglie Wave:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=quantumzone/debroglie.html

Bragg's diffraction

http://www.journey.sunysb.edu/ProjectJava/Bragg/home.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

All kinds of e-m waves

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=waves_particles/index.html

SPECTRAL LINES

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

NUCLEAR ATOM

Atomic absorption and emission BOHR MODEL

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=quantumzone/bohr.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/atomphoton/index.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/ccp/27-5/

SINGLE AND DOUBLE SLIT INTERFERENCE OF ELECTRONS

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=schroedinger/two-slit3.html

X-RAYS

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=xray/index.html

Making X-Rays

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=xray/making_xrays.html

MODERN LIGHT

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=applets_EL.html

What is Light? HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/light0.html

DUAL PROPERTY OF LIGHT: http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/pchem/qm/waveduality.html

Sources of light: http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/sources.html

CHAPTER 4: GEOMETRICAL OPTICS

PINHOLE CAMERA: Light & Optics

REFLECTION: (2 slides 0-1)

HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/reflection0.html

REFRACTION: (5 slides 1-5)

HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/refraction1.html

Reflection and Refraction: http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/jc/library/22-2c/OtticaGEOE.html

Reflection and transmission at interface of two media

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/propagation/propagation.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/jc/library/22-2a/refraction.htm

Index of Refraction: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/dispersion1.html

Prism, Minimum Deviation: http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/jc/library/24-8a/PrismE.html

Reflection, refraction, total internal refraction

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/jc/library/22-2c/OtticaGEOE.html

Total internal reflection

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/totintrefl/index.html

Fermat's principle

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/refraction/refraction.html

IMAGE FORMATION BY RAY DIAGRAMS

Images by diverging mirror

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/dmirr/index.html

Images by converging lens

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/clens/index.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/lenscon.htm

Image by diverging lens

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/dlens/index.html

Images by converging and diverging lenses

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/Lens/lens_e.html

Spherical Aberration: http://www.rose-hulman.edu/Users/groups/packets/HTML/physopt/mainpg.htm

CHAPTER 5: POLARIZATION

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=polarization/polarizationI.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=polarization/blocking_light.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=polarization/index.html

STANDING WAVES:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=microwaves/standing_wave1.html

Laser light & Ordinary light

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=lasers/index.html

Atomic absorption and emission

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=quantumzone/bohr.html

Atomic absorption

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/atomphoton/index.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/ccp/27-5/

Induced emission in atoms

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/laser/index.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/atomphoton/index.html

BAR CODE: http://www.beakman.com/upc/barcode.html

Supwer Market Laser Scanner arrangement: http://www.opticalres.com/graphics/images/cvscanpl.gif

CD PLAYER: http://www.beakman.com/cd/cd.html

Laser cooling: http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=bec/lascool1.html

Chronology of Communications: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/revolution/index.html

Optical Fibers: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/index.html

Hobby Holography: http://www.holoworld.com/

Human Eye : http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/

http://www.tedmontgomery.com/the_eye/index.html

Eye Deseases: http://www.mic.ki.se/Diseases/C11.html

CHAPTER 9: SEEING

Vision http://www-wilson.ucsd.edu/education/pchem/qm/Vision.html

RESONANCE in waves

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=microwaves/standing_wave2.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=microwaves/tiles.html

GLASS PLATE: Light dispersion and transmission

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/dispslab/index.html

PRISM: minimum deviation, dispersion of colors

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/prism.htm

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/jc/library/24-8a/PrismE.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/dispprizm/index.html

Total internal reflection

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ipmj/java/totintrefl/index.html

RAINBOW: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/dispersion0.html

HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/dispersion2.html

HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/dispersion3.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/Rainbow/rainbow.html

SCATTERING: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/scattering1.html

Rayleigh Scattering: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/scattering2.html

Mie Scattering: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/scattering3.html

Blue Haze: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/scattering0.html

Halos: HTTP://www.vislab.usyd.edu.au/photonics/fibres/fizzz/refraction0.html

Northern Lights/Solar Flare: http://image.gsfc.nasa.gov/poetry/dimarco.html

Color Mixing

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/colors/TabbedcolorBox.html

Color subtraction

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/explrsci/dswmedia/lenscon.htm

MERGING COLORS IN TV SCREEN

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=tv/merging_color.html

TV screen scanning

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=tv/big_picture.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=tv/colortv.html

BIOPHYSICAL CHRONOLOGY: http://www.rwc.uc.edu/koehler/biophys/chrono.html

LIGHT AND OPTICS: Light & Optics

OPTICS DISCOVERY KIT: http://www.localeyecare.com/article/light-and-optics.htm

OPTICS IN NATURE: http://www.localeyecare.com/article/light-and-optics.htm

PATTERNS IN NATURE: http://www.localeyecare.com/article/light-and-optics.htm

HUBBLE'S TELESCOPE: http://www.opticalres.com/graphics/images/hubble.gif

LIST OF APPLETS: For example laser, x-rays, CAT's scan, Microwave oven, TV screen, liquid crystal:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=applets_EL.html

Modern Physics topics in general

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=cover.html

LIQIUD CRYSTALS

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=laptops/liqcrys.html

Pythogoras theorem

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/ntnujava/abc/Pythagoras.html

http://webphysics.ph.msstate.edu/javamirror/interf/interference.html

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/index.pl?Page=waves_particles/index.html

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