I'm 2nd year and weget to play with Lasers and Li. Ni2. Great fun. Until you're looking at a diffraction pattern for the 80th fucking time.
Calm. Think calm.
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Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:20,
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Calm. Think calm.
What sort of diffraction patterns?I did a project on nanosphere array diffraction patterns last year. That was quite good fun, until the lab tech fobbed my off with non spherical non-self-assembling lypodium spores.
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Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:22,
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Really, really boring onesLooking at the fraunhofer and fresnel case for single, broad and double slits. Relating them to the Fresnel Integrals and the Cornu Spiral (with this magic unitless thingy, v). Finding the wavelength of our laser from them, all that kinda shit.
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Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:27,
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Bummer.I ended up sleeping a terms worth of labs away in the optics laboratory. ^_^
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Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:31,
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YeahLast Thursday, from a piece of A5 paper, we made a loop big enough for both of us to walk through. It fitted over the door.
We tried diffracting through it but it didn't do anything.
Then I had some coffee. Then I fell asleep. Then I broke some optics stuff.
Next week we're doing something random to do with working out the speed of sound by making a box go ping.
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Mon 24 Nov 2003, 19:37,
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We tried diffracting through it but it didn't do anything.
Then I had some coffee. Then I fell asleep. Then I broke some optics stuff.
Next week we're doing something random to do with working out the speed of sound by making a box go ping.