Snell's Law and Huygens's Principle|Electricity and Magnetism Course|Physics

Lectures (Video)

1. Electric Charges
2. Electric Field and Dipoles
3. Electric Flux and Gauss's Law
4. Electrostatic Potential
5. Conductors and Electrostatic Shielding
6. High-Voltage Breakdown
7. Capacitance
8. Polarization and Dielectrics
9. Currents and Resistivity
10. Energy Conservation and Kirchhoff's Rules
11. Magnetic field and Lorentz Force
12. Review
13. Cyclotron, Synchrotron and Mass Spectrometer
14. Biot-Savart Law
15. Ampere's Law and Solenoids
16. Electromagnetic Induction and Faraday's Law
17. Dynamos and Eddy Currents
18. Displacement Current and Motors
19. Electrocardiogram and Superconductivity
20. Inductance
21. Magnetic Materials
22. Hysteresis and Maxwell's Equations
23. Review II
24. Transformers
25. Resonance
26. Traveling and Standing Waves
27. Resonance and Electromagnetic Waves
28. Polarization
29. Snell's Law and Huygens's Principle
30. Polarizers
31. Rainbows
32. Review III
33. Interferometers
34. Single-Slit Diffraction
35. Doppler Effect and Cosmology
36. Special Lecture

Electricity and Magnetism - Lecture 29

Lecture 29 - Snell's Law and Huygens's Principle

Snell's Law
Refraction
Total Reflection
Dispersion
Prisms
Huygens's Principle
The Illusion of Color
The Weird Benham Top Land's Famous Demo

Prof. Walter Lewin
8.02 Electricity and Magnetism, Spring 2002
(Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT OpenCourseWare)
http://ocw.mit.edu
Date accessed: 2008-12-12
License: Creative Commons BY-NC-SA

Lecture Material

Supplementary lecture material is listed below.

1. Speed of EM Waves in Matter - Index of Refraction
2. Color-Wavelength Chart

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