| DCS # | DEMONSTRATION | REFERENCE | ABSTRACT |
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| 6C10.00 | Diffraction Through One Slit | | |
| 6C10.10 | single slit and laser | PIRA 200 | Shine a laser beam through single slits of various sizes. |
| 6C10.10 | single slit and laser | 6C10.10 | A laser beam is passed through slits of various widths are shown on the wall. |
| 6C10.10 | single slit and laser | Ol-6 | Direct laser beam through single slits of various sizes. |
| 6C10.10 | single slit diffraction | Disc 23-02 | Diffraction pattern from a laser passing through an adjustable slit spreads as the slit is closed |
| 6C10.12 | Cornell plate - single slit | PIRA 1000 | |
| 6C10.12 | Cornel plate - single slit | 6C10.12 | |
| 6C10.12 | single slit diffraction (Cornell) | Disc 23-03 | Laser and Cornell slide - measurements from on screen can be used in calculations. |
| 6C10.15 | adjustable slit and laser | PIRA 200 | Shine a laser beam through an adjustable slit. |
| 6C10.15 | adjustable slit and laser | 6C10.15 | |
| 6C10.15 | laser and adjustable slit | Ol-7 | Project a laser beam through an adjustable slit. |
| 6C10.15 | diffraction limited resolution | 35-3.8 | A
beam of light is projected through an adjustable slit into a telescope attached
to a TV camera. The central slit widens as the slit is closed. |
| 6C10.20 | two finger slit | PIRA 1000 | |
| 6C10.20 | two finger slit | L-73 | Have each student look at a vertical filament lamp through the slit formed by holding two fingers together. |
| 6C10.21 | adjustable single slit | AJP 33(3),245 | Look through a vernier caliper toward a monochromatic light 5 to 10 m away. |
| 6C10.25 | single slit diffraction - hand held | Ol-3 | Look at a filament through a dark plate with a line scratched in it. |
| 6C10.26 | single and double slits | L-82 | Single
and double lines are ruled on a photographic plate. Students look at a line
filament covered with half red and half blue filters. A ruling tool is described. |
| 6C10.27 | Cornell plate | 35-3.2 | Pass out Cornell plates to the students and have them look at a line filament. |
| 6C10.27 | Cornell plate | O-7c | Pass out the Cornell plate. |
| 6C10.30 | slit on photodiode array | PIRA 1000 | |
| 6C10.30 | slit array | 35-3.3 | A slit array of randomly spaced single or double slits follows the imaging lens projecting a slit on the wall. |
| 6C10.30 | single and double slit projected | L-83 | Focus
a slit on the wall and place photographic plates with slits near the lens.
For the single slit, parallel lines are unevenly spaced. For the parallel
slit, pairs of lines of equal spacing are randomly spaced. |
| 6C10.33 | white light diffraction | 35-3.1 | A slit is projected on the wall and a second slit is placed at the focal point of the lens. |
| 6C10.43 | rotating mirror detector | AJP 53(6),599 | A rotating mirror sweeps the interference pattern across a photodiode and the output is displayed on an oscilloscope. |
| 6C10.43 | electric razor detector sweep | AJP 54(10),956 | A
mirror mounted on an electric razor is used to sweep a diffraction pattern
across a sensitive photodiode, and the resulting pattern is displayed on
an oscilloscope. |
| 6C10.43 | motorized slit sweep | AJP 38(8),1039 | A
slit is motorized and a microscope objective projects the observation plane
onto a photodiode detector. The scope sweep is synchronized with the motor
speed. |
| 6C10.43 | rotating mirror detector | AJP 54(3),283 | A rotating mirror sweeps a diffraction pattern across a photodiode and the pattern is shown on an oscilloscope. |
| 6C10.44 | single slit and relative phase | AJP 54(9),851 | A double slit is used to sample the light from a single slit to give information about the relative phases. |
| 6C10.47 | tv tube detector | AJP 52(7),653 | Look at the composite output from a TV camera on an oscilloscope at the same time the pattern is displayed on the screen. |
| 6C10.50 | microwave diffraction | PIRA 1000 | |
| 6C10.50 | microwave diffraction | 6C10.50 | 3 cm microwave and a single slit. |
| 6C10.50 | microwave single slit diffraction | Ol-2 | Single slit diffraction with microwave apparatus. |
| 6C10.50 | microwave diffraction | Disc 23-01 | An
adjustable slit on the Brett Carrol microwave board (receiver and transmitter
are mounted on a large vertical circle with a built in LED bar graph signal
strength indicator. |
| 6C10.61 | diffraction limited resolution | 35-3.9 | Demonstrating the resolving power of a microscope is tricky. |
| 6C10.62 | diffraction limited resolution | AJP 29(9),xvii | A "picket fence lantern slide with an adjustable slit on the screen side of the projection lens. |
| 6C10.64 | microscope resolving power | AJP 37(1),105 | Modify
ordinary objectives by inserting diaphragms at the back focal plane. Use
a binocular microscope with a normal ocular on one side. |