Waves and Optics


Wave Motion

Beat Xylophone

Beats Generator

Bell in a Vacuum

Circular Vibrational Modes

Doppler Frisbee and Ball

Longitudinal Wave Machine

Microwave Doppler Beats

Projection Ripple Tank

Ropes and Spring Attached to Wall

Shive Wave Machine

Shive Wave Machine Pulley Driver

Slinkys

Sound Wave Interference

Speaker Twirl

Standing Waves on a String

Tunable Tuning Forks with Resonant Cavities

Tuning Forks with Ames Tube



Acoustics

Beer Bottle Tones

Fourier Synthesizer

Limits of Human Hearing



Instruments

Breaking a Beaker with Sound

Chladni Plate

Kundt's Tube

Organ Pipes

Ruben's Tube

Singing Rod

Singing Corrugated Tube

Sonometer with Suspended Weights



Geometrical Optics

Converging Lens Mechanical Model

Corner Cube Reflector

Fiber Optics

Glass and Glycerine Trick

Mirage with Parabolic Mirrors

Parabolic Mirror Ignites Flash Paper

Refraction Tank

Seperation and Recombination of White Light

White Light Spectrum with a Prism

Whiteboard Optics



Photometry

Bichsel Boxes

Spectrum of a Blackbody



Diffraction

Laser Pinhole Diffraction

Laser Single Slit Diffraction

Poisson Spot

Babinet's Principle with Slit and Thin Wire



Interference

Dichroic Filter

Laser Double Slit Interference

Laser Multiple Slit Interference

Newton's Rings

Source Point Interference

Soap Film Interference

White Light Spectrum with a Diffraction Grating



Color

Artificial Sunset



Polarization

Anti-reflection with Quarter Wave Plate
 
Calcite Birefringence

Corn Syrup Polarization Rotation

Faraday Rotation

Polarization by Reflection

Polaroid Filters

Stress Induced Birefringence

Wave Plates



The Eye



Modern Optics

Dynamic Light Scattering

He-Ne Laser

Hologram Example

Spatial Filtering