models april 9

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From: Paul Doherty (pauld@exploratorium.edu)
Date: Thu Mar 24 2005 - 08:37:19 PST 

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Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2005 08:37:19 -0800
From: Paul Doherty <pauld@exploratorium.edu>
Subject: models april 9

Eric Don and I are putting together our materials for the models class.

I was planning on doing models of polarized light.
(e.g. the picket fence model of polarizing travelling waves on a cord, and
how in reality for light the pickets of the polarizing material are at
right angles to the direction of polarization.)
And a model for how white light becomes colored when passing through a
sandwich of polarizers and clear tape.

and also models of the atom, the Bohr model and a little of the
Schroedinger model.

Do your students have questions on these models or any others in physics?

For example the model of light as a particle or a wave or both?

Paul Doherty

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