光的简史（A brief history of light）.docVIP

光的简史（A brief history of light） BBC dance of light -- history of Optics English Name: Light Fantastic Resource type: DVDRip Release date: 2005 Region: United States Language: English Brief introduction: A documentary on the history of optics, produced by Schaefer, a historian of science at University of Cambridge (Simon Schaffer). Optics is the study of the behavior and properties of light (electromagnetic waves), as well as the interaction of light and matter. Traditional optics only studies visible light, and modern optics has been extended to the study of full band electromagnetic waves. Light is an electromagnetic wave, in physics, electromagnetic waves from Maxwell equations in electrodynamics description; at the same time, light has wave particle like two, expression of quantum mechanics. The optical origin in the West had recorded optical knowledge, Euclid (Euclid, BC 330 ~ 260) (Catoptrica) optical reflection of light reflection; Arabia scholar Al Hazen (AI-Hazen, 965 ~ 1038) wrote a book on the optical, many optical the phenomenon of. Optics really forms a science, and it should be based on the laws of reflection and refraction. These two laws lay the foundation of geometrical optics. In seventeenth Century, the application of Liao mirror and microscope greatly promoted the development of geometrical optics. The nature of light is also an important subject of optical research. Particles say that light is composed of particles and that these particles fly in a straight line in accordance with mechanical laws, so that light has the properties of rectilinear propagation. Before nineteenth Century, particle theory was more prevalent. However, with the development of optical research, many phenomena that can not be explained by direct interpretation, such as dry interaction, diffraction, etc., are easily explained by the fluctuation of light. So the wave theory of optics has gained the upper hand. The debate between the two theories constitutes a red line in