Do you ever wonder how a greenhouse gas affects the climate, or why the ozone layer is important? Use the sim to explore how light interacts with molecules in our atmosphere.
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In this lab, you can explore what light does when it encounters a diffraction grating. Use at least one of the checkboxes to turn on a beam of light.
With this simulation, you can explore thin-film interference.
In this lab, you can explore waves and their interference phenomenon. You can observe both constructive and destructive interference. The first two plots show the individual waves from different directions and the third shows the sum of these two waves.
Make waves with a dripping faucet, audio speaker, or laser! Adjust frequency and amplitude, and observe the effects. Hear the sound produced by the speaker, and discover what determines the color of light.
Make waves with a dripping faucet, audio speaker, or laser! Add a second source to create an interference pattern. Put up a barrier to explore single-slit diffraction and double-slit interference.
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In this lab, you can observe the reflection of a wave pulse. Use the checkboxes to choose between a fixed right end (bouncing off a more rigid medium) or a free right end (bouncing off a less rigid medium). You can observe the sum of the two waves in the third graph.
In this lab, you can explore the concept of the Doppler shift for electromagnetic waves. At the top is a simplified version of the emission spectrum from the Sun.
In Newton's rings, a curved watch glass sits on top of a flat piece of glass. A thin film of air is in between the two - the thin film has a thickness that is zero where the two pieces of glass touch, and gradually increases as you move away from that point.
The lab above simulates what would happen if a spinning fidget spinner was placed in a photocopier. Try hitting the Pause button - that freezes the fidget spinner at one instant, so you capture a snapshot of the fidget spinner at one time.