Optics Index
Demonstrations are catalogued by the PIRA Demonstration Classification System. See here for the complete Optics headings in the DCS. Links marked with asterisks, (***), are not active as yet.
- 6A-Geometrical Optics
- 6A.02. Straight Line Propagation
- Laser and chalk dust
- (***)Shadows
- 6A.10. Reflection From Flat Surfaces
- (***)Blackboard optics - plane mirror
- (***)Optical disk and flat mirror
- (***)Laser and mirror with chalk dust
- (***)Ripple tank (film loop)
- (***)Corner reflector
- (***)Hinged mirrors
- (***)Candle under water
- (***)Magic coin bank
- 6A.20. Reflection From Curved Surfaces
- (***)Blackboard optics - curved mirrors
- (***)Lamp in socket
- (***)Mirage
- (***)Real image, concave mirror
- (***)Large concave/convex mirrors
- (***)Light a match
- 6A.40. Refractive Index
- (***)Apparent depth - video
- (***)Apparent depth -OHP
- (***)Pyrex in mineral oil
- (***)Twinkling - laser and hot plate
- (***)Mirage - laser, sugar solution
- (***)Shadow project hot object
- 6A.42. Refraction at Flat Surfaces
- (***)Blackboard optics
- (***)Optical disk
- 6A.44. Total Internal Reflection
- (***)Blackboard optics
- (***)Optical disk
- (***)Light pipe
- (***)Water jet light pipe
- (***)Erlenmeyer flask and spheres
- (***)TIR lights
- 6A.46. Rainbow
- 6A.60. Thin Lens
- 6A.61. Pinhole
- 6A.65. Thick Lens
- (***)Water lens
- 6A.70. Optical Instruments
- 6C-Diffraction
- 6C.10. Diffraction Through One Slit
- Variable single slit
- (***)Two finger slit
- Single slit - Pasco diffraction plate
- 6C.20. Diffraction Around Objects
- (***)Diffraction from a hair
- (***)Circular aperture
- (***)Poisson's spot
- (***)Fresnel diffraction
- 6D-Interference
- 6D.10. Interference From Two Sources
- Double slit - Pasco diffraction plate
- 6D.20. Gratings
- (***)Multiple slits
- (***)Gratings
- 6D.30. Thin Films
- 6D.40. Interferometers
- 6F-Color
- 6F.10. Synthesis and Analysis of Color
- 6F.30. Dispersion
- 6F.40. Scattering
- 6H-Polarization
Introduction
- 6H.10. Dichroic Polarization
- (***)Polaroids
- (***)Microwave polarization
- (***)Polarization - mechanical model
- 6H.20. Polarization by Reflection
- (***)Brewster's angle
- (***)Microwave Brewster's angle
- 6H.30. Circular Polarization
- (***)Barber pole
- (***)Optical activity in corn syrup
- 6H.35. Birefringence
- (***)Calcite crystal
- (***)Quarter wave plate
- (***)Half wave plate
- (***)Stress birefringence
- (***)Cellophane
- 6H.50. Polarization by Scattering
- (***)Polarization in the sunset demo
- 6J-The Eye
- 6J.10. The Eye
- 6J.11. Physiology
- 6Q-Modern Optics
- 6Q.10. Holography
- 6Q.20. Physical Optics