Polarised light in science and nature:

"Do you know: How to make a kaleidoscope that offers endless colour combinations for each of its infinite variety of patterns?; Blue sky has a pattern that insects can use as a compass?; Small crystals can light up in brilliant colours that are used to identify them in thin rock sections?; How...

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Main Author: Pye, David (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Bristol [u.a.] Inst. of Physics Publ. 2001
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Online Access:Inhaltsverzeichnis
Summary:"Do you know: How to make a kaleidoscope that offers endless colour combinations for each of its infinite variety of patterns?; Blue sky has a pattern that insects can use as a compass?; Small crystals can light up in brilliant colours that are used to identify them in thin rock sections?; How a camera shutter can open and close again in just one billionth of a second - the time it takes for light to travel only 30 cm?" "This book provides the answers to these and dozens of other questions about our natural world and how some of its inhabitants use polarised light instinctively."--BOOK JACKET.
Physical Description:IX, 124 S., [8] Bl. Ill., graph. Darst.
ISBN:0750306734

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