Lecture 15 - Polarization; Huygen’s Principle; Diffraction

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Waves in multiple dimensions can have "polarization" degrees of freedom; linear and circular polarization; anisotropic media; quarter-wave plate; plane waves and circular or spherical waves; diffraction. Demonstrations: Michelson interferometer; single slit and double slit diffraction; refraction, transmission, and reflection of light; polarized light and quarter-wave plate Lecture 15 of Caltech's Ph2a Course on Vibrations and Waves by Prof. Frank Porter and Dr. Ashmeet Singh. View course materials on the course website http://waves.caltech.edu Produced in association with Caltech Academic Media Technologies under the Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs Creative Commons License (CC BY-NC-ND). To learn more about this license, https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This lecture was recorded on November 19, 2019, in 201 East Bridge (Feynman Lecture Hall) at Caltech, Pasadena, CA, USA. ©2020 California Institute of Technology

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