Overview
Syllabus
- Introduction
- What is a laser?
- Newton and the prism
- The wave theory of light
- Everyday types of light
- Young and diffraction
- Dalton's atomic theory
- Lines in the solar spectrum
- Faraday and electromagnetism
- The spectroscope and spectral analysis
- Matter and light
- Crookes' radiometer
- JJ Thompson and the electron
- Planck's constant
- Albert Einstein and the photoelectric effect
- Looking inside the atom
- Exciting electrons and the laser
- Metastability
- The first lasers
- A modern gas laser
Taught by
The Royal Institution