Lab 4: Spectrometer

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Description: In this lab you will be exploring many aspects of optics. In class you learned about light polarization, Snell's law, critical angle, gratings, Fresnel equations and Brewster's angle. We will now be experimentally verifying all of these concepts.

Speaker: Yu Gu

Related Resources

Prelab (PDF)

Sample spectra images (ZIP - 3.0MB) (This ZIP file contains: 3 .jpg files.)

Lab handout (PDF)