Refraction

Resources

• Dispersion
  • Dispersion of Sound Waves in Ice Sheets. Andreas Bick. silent listening (2008).
• Historical
  • Stationary Paths. Kevin Brown. Math Pages.
• Inversion prism
  • Erismann and Kohler: Inversion goggles. The movie documents a classic experiment conducted in 1950 by Ivo Kohler and Theodor Erismann at the university of Innsbruck, Austria. Erismann is the older person the movie, and Kohler, his research assistant at that time, is the person wearing the inversion goggles. Silent with German subtitles.
  • Upside Down Glasses Challenge. Good Mythical Morning (2014). Things become complicated when everything is upside down!
• Negative index of refraction
  • Bending Light the Wrong Way. M.C.K. Wiltshire. Science. Vol. 292 (2001): 60–61.
  • Experimental Verification of a Negative Index of Refraction. R.A. Shelby, D.R. Smith, S. Schultz. Science. Vol. 292 (2001): 77–79.
  • Material Bends Microwaves Backwards. Kimberly Patch. Technology Research News (2001).
• Optical fibers
  • Biology
    • Is polar bear hair fiber optic? Daniel W. Koon, St. Lawrence University.
    • Müller cells are living optical fibers in the vertebrate retina. Kristian Franze et al. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. No. 104 Vol. 20 (2007): 8287–8292.
  • Networking
    • Submarine Cable Map. TeleGeography.
  • TV stone
    • The mineral ulexite. Hershel Friedman. Mineral and Gemstone Kingdom.
• Optical meteorology
  • Arbeitskreis Meteore. Wolfgang Hinz. Atmospheric Phenomena.
  • Atmospheric Optics. Les Cowley.
  • Atmospheric Optics Photography. Harald Edens (weather-photography.com).
  • Atmospheric Phenomena. Pekka Parviainen.
    • Mirages in Finland. this is FINLAND.
  • Bad Rainbows. Tumblr. One man's crusade against incorrectly drawn rainbows.
  • Green Flash Page. Andrew T. Young. San Diego State University.
  • Light and Optics: Online Meteorology Guide. Weather World 2010. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.
  • The Min Min light and the Fata Morgana: An optical account of a mysterious Australian phenomenon. John D Pettigrew. Clinical and Experimental Optometry. Vol. 86 No. 2 (2003): 109–120.
• Miscellaneous
  • Emerald and the politics of Opticon treatment. Richard W. Hughes. ruby-sapphire.com.
  • Why do waves travel towards a shore no matter which way the wind blows? New Scientist. No. 2306 (2001).
• Video on demand
  • BBC Earth Lab
    • How to make glass completely invisible | Live Experiments (Ep 33) | Head Squeeze. YouTube (2013). They cite The Physics Hypertextbook! Incorrectly, however. The values for the refactive indexes of Pyrex and vegetable oil are 1.47, not 1.147, but this is otherwise a fine video.
  • Brady Haran
    • Total Internal Reflection. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2009). Professor Bowley demonstrates a few tricks involving waves and prisms — on various scales.
    • Why is light slower in glass? Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2013). Professor Merrifield largely "uncut" discussing refraction.
  • The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
    • Optics. Many properties of light are properties of waves, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction.