{"id":5536,"date":"2015-11-20T17:25:44","date_gmt":"2015-11-20T17:25:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/?p=5536"},"modified":"2024-01-19T19:10:43","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T19:10:43","slug":"poisson-spot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/11\/poisson-spot\/","title":{"rendered":"Poisson Spot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151042.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5535\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151042.jpg\" alt=\"1113151042\" width=\"2106\" height=\"1184\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151043.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5533\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151043.jpg\" alt=\"1113151043\" width=\"1316\" height=\"2340\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151042a.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5532\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151042a.jpg\" alt=\"1113151042a\" width=\"2340\" height=\"1316\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151054.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-5534\" src=\"http:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2015\/11\/1113151054.jpg\" alt=\"1113151054\" width=\"2496\" height=\"1404\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Shine coherent light onto a spherical object and a dim spot of light appears in the center of the object&#8217;s circular shadow. This spot is called a Poisson spot, or Arago spot, and can be explained using the wave interpretation of light.<\/li>\n<li>Green or red lasers, diverting lens, optics track and components located in L35, section A. BB in glass slides located in L01, section B6.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Shine coherent light onto a spherical object and a dim spot of light appears in the center of the object&#8217;s circular shadow. This spot is called a Poisson spot, or Arago spot, and can be explained using the wave interpretation of light. Green or red lasers, diverting lens, optics track and components located in L35, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/2015\/11\/poisson-spot\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Poisson Spot<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":5534,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[78,80,61],"tags":[293,303,566,568,567,532],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536"}],"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=5536"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5538,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5536\/revisions\/5538"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/demos.swarthmore.edu\/physics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}