{"id":3745,"date":"2015-06-16T14:02:48","date_gmt":"2015-06-16T14:02:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.swatlibraries.org\/projects\/speed\/anna\/2015\/06\/16\/birefringence-optical-activity\/"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:46","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:46","slug":"birefringence-optical-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/birefringence-optical-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Birefringence &amp; Optical Activity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/polarity-of-light.jpg\" alt=\"Birefringence and Optical Activity Demo Picture\" width=\"414\" height=\"311\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/Polarization-7.jpg\" alt=\"Birefringence and Optical Activity Demo Picture 3\" width=\"413\" height=\"309\" \/><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/06\/polarization-3-2010.jpg\" alt=\"Birefringence and Optical Activity Demo Picture 2\" width=\"414\" height=\"310\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Set contains: Polarizers, Mica Wafers, selenite, calcite samples, Benzoic Acid wafers, stressed plastic, cellophane, and corn syrup.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">View various objects between two polarized lenses; rotate\u00a0a lens to see change in color patterns.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Phenomenon is the result of <em>optical rotation.<\/em>\u00a0Linearly polarized light rotates as it passes through these materials. Extent of rotation depends on wavelength\u00a0of light, causing angular separation of colors.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Located in L01, section B4<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Set contains: Polarizers, Mica Wafers, selenite, calcite samples, Benzoic Acid wafers, stressed plastic, cellophane, and corn syrup. View various objects between two polarized lenses; rotate\u00a0a lens to see change in color patterns. Phenomenon is the result of optical rotation.\u00a0Linearly polarized light rotates as it passes through these materials. Extent of rotation depends on wavelength\u00a0of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/06\/birefringence-optical-activity\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Birefringence &amp; Optical Activity<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":4905,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,59],"tags":[111,127,344,367,396,441],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3745"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5517,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3745\/revisions\/5517"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4905"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}