Teaching physics/science with Indigo

[Russdigo]

I'm working with a local high school. They might be interested in what indigo can do for them. They have many PC's around the school all networked, the teachers have powerful laptops (duals) that can be linked to overhead projectors in each class and laptops can be booked for lessons as and when.

I'm talking with the science department at the moment can anyone suggest any ways an un-biased render like Indigo might be useful?

For example a 6th form project could be examining the accuracy of Indigo against real world experiments. Glass block seen from above lightbox with slit shoots ray through block how does the angle of incidence differ from a real world test.

[remus]

I think itd be a bit of a stretch to get students using it but i can certainly imagine it being a useful resource for teachers to demonstrate ideas and concepts.

[Borgleader]

iirc in the lightbox experiment you mentionned the slits are extremely small and i wonder how indigo works with those

[Russdigo]

iirc in the lightbox experiment you mentionned the slits are extremely small and i wonder how indigo works with those

I was also wondering if Indigo would produce diffraction patterns from twin slits etc.

[Meelis]

Maybe Doppler Effect
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J43lAESftPs


But sometimes there are patterns, not shure what they are.

[remus]

iirc in the lightbox experiment you mentionned the slits are extremely small and i wonder how indigo works with those

I was also wondering if Indigo would produce diffraction patterns from twin slits etc.

Thatd be interesting. Youd need a beast of a machine to test it at any decent resolution though.

[CTZn]

Hold your horses, interferometry (slim slits suff) is about quantum mechanics, Indigo is more about optics

What matters is the science departements after Russdigo, generally speaking ? What do they study ?

[Russdigo]

Hold your horses, interferometry (slim slits suff) is about quantum mechanics, Indigo is more about optics

What matters is the science departements after Russdigo, generally speaking ? What do they study ?

They are open to suggestion. It might be a case of something to look forward to at the end of the lesson and how science (physics) might be useful in the real world. For example setting off a prism render at the start of the lesson then studying prisms and seeing what Indigo has done at the end end and comparing it, discussing why there might be differences.

[remus]

without wanting to go off topic too much, cant slits be modelled with waves as well?

[OnoSendai]

You could do some stuff with angles of reflection and angles of refraction. Indigo does total internal reflection as well.
It doesn't do double slit diffraction (apart from the special case of aperture diffraction), because in general Indigo only does geometric (straight line) optics, not wave optics.