Polarization
Resources
- Edwin Land
- Light polarizer. Edwin H. Land, Howard G. Rogers, Polaroid Corporation. US Patent 2,173,304 (1939).
- Light filter. Edwin H. Land, Grabau Martin, Farms Wellesley, Polaroid Corporation. US Patent 2,184,999 (1939).
- Photography
- Molecular Expressions: The Phytochemical Collection. Michael W. Davidson. Florida State University. Photomicrographs of purified biochemicals captured using plane-polarized light and Hoffman modulation contrast optical microscopy techniques.
- Miscellaneous
- An Unexpected Advantage of Whiteness in Horses: The Most Horsefly-Proof Horse Has a Depolarizing White Coat. Gábor Horváth, Miklós Blahó, György Kriska, Ramón Hegedüs, Balázs Gerics, Róbert Farkas and Susanne Åkesson. Proceedings of the Royal Society B. Vol. 277 No. 1688 (2010): 1643–1650.
- Ecological traps for dragonflies in a cemetery: the attraction of Sympetrum species (Odonata: Libellulidae) by horizontally polarizing black gravestones. Gábor Horváth, Péter Malik, György Kriska, Hansruedi Wildermuth. Freshwater Biology. Vol. 52 (2007): 1700–1709.
- Video on demand
- Brady Haran
- Polarisation. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2009). The strange world of electromagnetic waves!
- Applied Science
- Control light with magnets and olive oil. YouTube (2015). See how olive oil and magnets can control the brightness of light via the Faraday effect.
- Brady Haran