Newton's Rings

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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Newton's Rings

written by Gregor Steele

A Tracker experiment that uses video analysis to test the thin film theory of Newton's Rings that predicts that the radius r squared is proportional to ring number M.

Please note that this resource requires at least version 1.6 of Java (JRE).

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Published: January 19, 2015
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1 ready-to-run example is available

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Subjects	Levels	Resource Types
Optics - Interference = Thin Films	- Lower Undergraduate - High School	- Instructional Material = Activity = Demonstration = Laboratory

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Access Rights:: Free access
Restriction:: © 2015 SSERC
Keywords:: interference, lens, light, reflect, thin film, waves
Record Creator:: Metadata instance created January 20, 2015 by Douglas Brown
Record Updated:: April 27, 2023 by Douglas Brown
Last Update when Cataloged:: January 19, 2015

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