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The mirage
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Light and Beyond - Lecture 2: Optical Phenomena and Wave Propagation
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- 1 TIME: Sundays, 10:00 am - 11:00 am Lecture, 11:30 am - pm Tutorials / discussions
- 2 Light and Beyond Lecture 2
- 3 Previously on LnB
- 4 ....and some more
- 5 The lateral wave
- 6 Beyond a constant speed inhomogenous and anisotropic
- 7 The mirage
- 8 The treasure hunt
- 9 Dijkstra algorithm for shortest routes on a graph
- 10 Huygens Fermat
- 11 Not all families of rays have wavefronts
- 12 A medium with layers
- 13 Ray curvature from Huygens construction
- 14 Back to the mirage
- 15 The curve of quickest descent: an optical analogy
- 16 Huygens vs. Newton
- 17 Q&A
- 18 Wrap Up
