Mindblown: a blog about philosophy.

  • April 16.

    April 16.

    Reminiscing a dreadful day in my life. Today 16th April, a decade ago, 2007. It was early morning. Snow flakes were making the surrounding really beautiful. Especially because I was sitting inside of a cozy air conditioned student center, looking out of the glass wall. The hazelnut flavored milk-less coffee used to be one of…

  • Interference of two types

    Interference of two types

    Interference by wave-front and amplitude splitting. Optics Series Lecture, Lecture – XIV, XV, XVI. Topics covered in this lecture A. Color of thin films B. Newton’s rings C. Lloyd’s mirror and D. Phase changes during reflection We have previously discussed what is interference and what are wave-front splitting and amplitude splitting interference. We have also discussed…

  • A magic formula in MS Word.

    A magic formula in MS Word.

    Removing a blank page from word document If you have ever come across a daunting problem in MS word where a new blank page appears without your volition and you lose your mind cos you just can’t delete it, relax. The following will restore your peace if it already was available to you before MS…

  • Waves

    Waves

    Optics Series Lecture, Lecture – XII and – XIII “Traveling waves, Differential wave equations, Particle and wave velocities.” In one of our earlier optics session lecture I had hinted at having waves defined by their pulse shape called as wave profile — or alternatively wave shape or wave form, and transcribing them into forms that…

  • Fresnel’s Bi-prism; measurement of wavelength of light

    Fresnel’s Bi-prism; measurement of wavelength of light

    Optics Series Lecture, Lecture – XI “Fresnel’s Bi-prism: measurement of wavelength of light by it.” Today we will discuss another interesting interference set-up, now that we have discussed the Young’s double slit experiment, in lecture – IX. A few words about the general mechanism behind interference. There are two kinds of interference basically that we…

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