Lecture 30: Polarizers, Malus's Law, Brewster Angle, Polarization by Reflection and Scattering, Why is the sky blue? Why are sunsets red? The sun will set in the lecture hall!

author: Walter H. G. Lewin, Center for Future Civic Media, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MIT
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Now, I have started understanding concepts that my Physics teacher tried teaching me in 11th & 12th standards... She tried very hard though I must admit.. only she failed to spark that interest in me which would have benifited me...
that was 13 years ago...
And now, with Prof. Walter's videos which I just found a couple of days back, I'm out of words to express my elation...


Comment10 Kishore Chandra Mishra, March 26, 2016 at 9:56 a.m.:

Very good lectures
Only shortcoming is he avoids derivation
He also keeps away from mathematics

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