College of Liberal Arts & Sciences
6D30.58 - Interference - Dusty Mirror
See also 6F40.80 in Optics.
Place the white screen with the hole in it onto the laser using the attached magnet. Sprinkle a light coat of chalk dust or Lycopodium powder onto the mirror and aim the laser at it. Adjust the mirror so that the reflection from the mirror goes directly back to the laser. You should be able to observe the scattered interference pattern on the white screen.
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- Charles A. Sawicki, "Easy and Inexpensive Demonstration of Light Interference", TPT, Vol. 39, #1, Jan. 2001, p. 16.
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- Guenter Schwarz, "Historical Note on 'White-Light Interference Fringes'", AJP, Vol. 35, #11, Nov. 1967, p. ix.
- Robert H. Webb, "White-Light Interference Fringes", AJP, Vol. 35, #3, Mar. 1967, p. xxii.
- T. Kallard, "Interference in Scattered Light", Exploring Laser Light, p. 183.
- Jearl Walker, "6.110. Colored Rings from a Misty or Dusty Mirror", The Flying Circus of Physics Ed. 2, p. 287.
- Yaakov Kraftmakher, "4.1. Interference of Light", Experiments and Demonstrations in Physics, ISBN 981-256-602-3, p. 221.
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