Episode 32: Light and Optics

15/04/2012 46 min Episodio 32
Episode 32: Light and Optics

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Episode Synopsis

A discussion of the nature of light and its interactions with matter, including a journey through the history of our understanding of light from Newton’s corpuscular theory through early wave theory and up to the modern wave-particle duality understanding. Following this is an analysis of the various ways light interacts with matter, including absorption, reflection, transmission, refraction, dispersion, and transparency.