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A week of science in photos

This last week has been pretty visual and photogenic. Considering I normally work with things that are either not visible to the human eye or things so bright they’d fry my camera this was a nice change. So this post is a visual record of what I spent my time doing.

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 7 years2 years ago
In retrospect we could have made this look a little more professional
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That darn vortex ring

Despite a  plea to the internet community at large in a previous posted titled “Vortex rings – suggestions please” no one came forward with any explanation of my splitting vortex rings. As popular as our little blog is, it wasn’t popular enough to reach any fluidics experts that could help Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 8 years2 years ago
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Brewster angle Lego microscope

Brewster’s angle is the angle at which light of a certain polarisation won’t reflect off a surface. The resulting reflection will then be made up of only light from a single polarisation (p-polarised). This little optical quirk is how polarised lenses remove lots of scattered reflections in photographs and why Read more…

By Matthew (@MCeeP), 8 years2 years ago
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