TESS Training and Experiment System

Wave optics sets with 29 experiments in physics

Phywe provides the following complementary sets of apparatus for the topic of wave optics: TESS Optics OE 1, TESS Optics OE 2 and TESS Optics OE 3, allowing as many as 29 experiments to be performed. The experiment literature guides students through the experiments themselves in a series of easily understood exercises.

Physics, Wave optics

Interferenz

Fresnel’s two-mirror experiment
Fresnel’s biprism experiment
Young’s double-slit experiment

Diffraction by objects in a single dimension

Diffraction from an edge
Diffraction from a slit
Diffraction by a narrow obstruction (bar), Babinet’s theorem
Diffraction by a double slit
Diffraction by a multiple slit
Diffraction by a grating
Determining wavelength from the diffraction by a grating
Coherence criteria

TESS Optics OE 1 13276-88

Diffraction by objects in 2 dimensions

Diffraction by a regular grating
Diffraction by a circular aperture
Diffraction by a set of circular apertures of equal diameter

Resolution

Resolution of optical instruments
Resolution of a microscope
Spectral resolution of a grating

Polarisation - qualitative experiments

Polarisation by filters
Polarisation due to birefringence under tension
Chromatic polarisation
Polarisation by reflection
Polarisation by refraction
Polarisation by scattering

TESS Optics OE 2 13277-88

Polarisation - quantitative experiments

Malus’ law
Birefrigence at a crack in lime
Brewster’s law
Rotation of the plane of polarisation in a sugar solution
Elliptical and circular polarisation

TESS Optics OE 3 13280-88

To perform these experiments in wave optics, all three TESS optics sets are needed plus the Mixing Colours set.

Equipment

TESS Optics OE 1                                                                                                      13276-88
or the alternative version TESS Optics OE 1 var.                                             13276-77
TESS Optics - Mixing Colours                                                                              13250-77
TESS Optics OE 2                                                                                                      13277-88
TESS Optics OE 3                                                                                                    13280-88