Summary

• Making polarized light
• Malus's law
• dichroism

• Birefringence
• theory
• calcite demo
• in-class 8.36



• Polarization continued
• Wave plates
• Explanation applet
• Full wave, half wave, quarter wave



• optical activity, demos
• YouTube video
• crossed polarizers (corn syrup demonstration)
• liquid crystals from HowStuffWorks.com







• More about birefringence
• Kerr cells
• Pockels cell
• Babinet compensator
• in-class 8.45