{"id":13891,"date":"2013-07-18T03:00:45","date_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=13891"},"modified":"2013-07-18T03:00:45","modified_gmt":"2013-07-18T08:00:45","slug":"the-simple-joys-of-optics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13891","title":{"rendered":"The Simple Joys of Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/skullsinthestars.com\/2013\/07\/16\/simple-fun-with-polarizers\/\">Simple fun with polarizers!<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve had a set of small polarized films sitting in my office for months.  The other day, I finally broke them out and, after some fiddling, it occurred to me that there are plenty of simple experiments that one can do with them!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of the fun forays is showing the effects of stress-induced birefringence, one of my favorites, as you <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/754\">might recall<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13306\">recall again<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Simple fun with polarizers! I\u2019ve had a set of small polarized films sitting in my office for months. The other day, I finally broke them out and, after some fiddling, it occurred to me that there are plenty of simple &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/13891\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}