Polarizer Program

APS Excellence in Physics Education Award
November 2019

Science SPORE Prize
November 2011

The Open Source Physics Project is supported by NSF DUE-0442581.

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Polarizer Program

written by Kiril Simov and Wolfgang Christian

The Polarizer program displays the effect of a plane polarizer on an incident electromagnetic wave. The polarization of the electromagnetic wave and the orientation of the polarizer can be modified.

Polarizer is an Open Source Physics program written for the teaching of optics. It is distributed as a ready-to-run (compiled) Java archive. Double clicking the optics_polarizer.jar file will run the program if Java is installed. Other optics programs are also available. They can be found by searching ComPADRE for Open Source Physics, OSP, or Optics.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.5 of Java.

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Last Modified: May 18, 2008

Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Electricity & Magnetism - General Optics - Polarization = Circular Polarization = Dichroic Polarization	- Lower Undergraduate - High School - Upper Undergraduate	- Instructional Material = Activity = Curriculum support = Interactive Simulation = Lecture/Presentation

Intended Users	Formats	Ratings
- Learners - Educators - Professional/Practitioners	- application/java	Currently 5.0/5 Rated 5.0 stars by 2 people Want to rate this material? Login here!

Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2008 Wolfgang Christian
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Keywords:: OSP, Open Source Physics, circularly polarized, electromagnetic wave, field, optics, optics properties, orientation, polarization, polarizer, wave
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created May 18, 2008 by Mario Belloni
Record Updated:: August 1, 2009 by Cathy Ezrailson
Last Update when Cataloged:: May 1, 2008
Other Collections:: The Physics Front

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Record Link

<a href="https://www.compadre.org/OSP/items/detail.cfm?ID=7178">Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. "Polarizer Program." Version 1.0.</a>

AIP Format

K. Simov and W. Christian, Computer Program POLARIZER PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), WWW Document, (https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7178&DocID=362).

AJP/PRST-PER

K. Simov and W. Christian, Computer Program POLARIZER PROGRAM, Version 1.0 (2008), <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7178&DocID=362>.

APA Format

Simov, K., & Christian, W. (2008). Polarizer Program (Version 1.0) [Computer software]. Retrieved September 11, 2024, from https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7178&DocID=362

Chicago Format

Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. "Polarizer Program." Version 1.0. https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7178&DocID=362 (accessed 11 September 2024).

MLA Format

Simov, Kiril, and Wolfgang Christian. Polarizer Program. Vers. 1.0. Computer software. 2008. Java 1.5. 11 Sep. 2024 <https://www.compadre.org/Repository/document/ServeFile.cfm?ID=7178&DocID=362>.

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@misc{ Author = "Kiril Simov and Wolfgang Christian", Title = {Polarizer Program}, Month = {May}, Year = {2008} }

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