Lec 29: Snell's Law, Refraction and Total Reflection | 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Walter Lewin) @ForTheAllureOfPhysics

$Lec 29: Snells Law, Refraction and Total Reflection | 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism (Walter Lewin) @ForTheAllureOfPhysics$

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Snell's Law - Refraction - Total Reflection - Dispersion - Prisms - Huygens's Principle - The Illusion of Color - The Weird Benham Top - Land's Famous Demo

This lecture is part of 8.02 Physics II: Electricity and Magnetism, as taught in Spring 2002 by Dr. Walter Lewin at MIT.

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