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18 Sept 2009

Einstein's universe



In demonstrating a point about quantum theory, our lecture gave the whole lecture theater diffraction gratings. Yes. For us to take home. A diffraction grating separates light into different wavelengths . My friends may not be overly impressed but I was in possession of an experiment waiting to happen.

Basically I had to take the picture at night as I wanted a point light source without it being too diffuse .The light source in question was actually a night light. In this case, white light is separated into its component colours. Sweet.

5 comments:

  1. u're making me very very jealous

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  2. eriko: I could lend it to you...It's really quite fun!

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  3. really! we shld organise our next walker outing!

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  4. Blister: it's an impressive toy.=)

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