Polarization Introduction

Historical

Applications

Audio Visual Materials available

Video Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, Disc Twenty-four
Chapter 64 Polarization

Demo 24-01 Polaroid Sheets Crossed and Uncrossed

Demo 24-02 Polaroids Cut at 45 Degrees

Demo 24-03 Rotation by Polarizing Filter

Demo 24-04 Microwave Polarization

Demo 24-05 Polarization by Reflection

Demo 24-06 Polarization by Double Reflection

Demo 24-07 Polarization by Scattering

Demo 24-08 Artificial Sunset

Chapter 65 Optical Activity

Demo 24-09 Optical Activity in Cellophane Tape

Demo 24-10 Polarized Lion

Demo 24-11 Optical Activity in Corn Syrup

Demo 24-12 Polage

Demo 24-13 Photoelastic Stress Figures

Demo 24-14 Barbershop Sugar Tube

Demo 24-15 Quarter Wave Plate

Demo 24-16 Double Refraction in Calcite

Demo 24-17 Liquid Crystal Sheets

Video Demonstrations in Lasers and Optics
Tape Two: Polarization of Light and Polarization Manipulation6 demonstrations)
all the demonstrations on this tape can be performed live without much trouble, not as elegantly but probably with greater interest

1. Linear Polarizer(0:30)

2. Polarization Rotation Using Polarizers (8:16)

3. Quarter-Wave Plate (16:25)

4. Half-Wave Plate (23:03)

5. Optical Isolator (29:39) *

6. Scattered Light in a Dielectric (34:20)

end (40:28)

Cinema Classics Disc 2/Side D: Waves (II) & Electricity and Magnetism

30 Color, Scattering, Polarization Index

35 Polarization - Radio (PSSC, 1960)

36 Polarization - Microwaves (PSSC, 1960)

37 Polarization - Light (PSSC, 1960)

References

"Polarized Light, Selected Reprints": AAPT Reprint Book 15, 1962? (Demos library)
includes Resource Letter PL-1 on Polarized Light (October 1961) reprinted from the American journal of Physics, and reprints of many useful papers
Shurcliff, William A., " Polarized light; production and use": Cambridge : Harvard University Press, 1962. (SFU QC 441 S5)
Konnen, G. P., "Polarized light in nature": Cambridge, Cambridgeshire ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1985.(SFU QC 976 P7 K6313)
Bragg, William Henry, Sir, "The universe of light": New York : Dover, 1959. (SFU QC 357 B67 1959)
Wood, Elizabeth A., "Crystals and light; an introduction to optical crystallography": Princeton, N.J., Published for the Commission on College Physics by Van Nostrand, 1964, (SFU QD 941 W6)
Brosseau, Christian, "Fundamentals of Polarized Light, A Statistical optics Approach": Wiley; New York, 1998 (QC441 B76 1998)