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Fundamentals of light, barber pole part 2 (early view)
🕑 Added 2023-08-31 04:31:10 +0000 UTCHey folks,
As promised, here's the follow-up to the last post, beginning to explain the diagonal stripes of color we see by beginning from the fundamentals of what light is. There's one to-do stub for an animation left in there, but I wanted to get it uploaded to you for feedback by tonight, with the aim of publishing by this weekend.
As always, I'd love to hear any thoughts you have!
Grant
Edit: Thank you for all the feedback! The finalized version is now up, feel free to share it widely if you think others would enjoy it.
Comments
Christopher Moon
OK next question at what point does light change from linear to non-linear - how does this change the Refractive Index?
Christopher Moon
Isn't this a variation of a Babinet compensator experiment with elliptically polarised light?
Julio Auto
When you are introducing radiation (at about 5:10) in say "this component of the field is only ever non-zero when our first charge is moving somehow, when it has an acceleration vector". But moving and having acceleration are different things, right (i.e., with inertia)? I suppose having acceleration is the defining factor here?
OMG Grant, this is amazing! Your insight and imagination are incredible. Bill Otto from Quora must approve of this, I think!
Wow these are the best graphics I have seen for EM waves. I can not wait for the refraction video!
