1. Huygens and Double Refraction
a. Huygens's Treatise, chap. 5
Huygens's calculation of the crystallographic angles
Student Data - Ordinary Ray Refraction
A Remarkable Rule - A Method for Testing
b. (Buchwald) What Huygens did
REPORTS: alpha beta gamma
2. Wollaston's Refractometer
a. Wollaston
Wollaston's Apparatus Explained
What is Plumbago? A Dictionary of Obsolete Chemical Terms
b. (Buchwald) What Wollaston did
REPORTS: alpha beta gamma
3. Simon and the law of electrostatic repulsion
a. A brief history of electricity and magnetism
b. Simon's description of his apparatus and experiments
c. calculations for the Simon experiment
calculations as live MathCad file:
PHOTOS OF YOUR EXPERIMENTS
REPORTS: alpha beta gamma
4. Malus on polarization by reflection
PHOTOS OF YOUR EXPERIMENTS
REPORTS: alpha beta gamma