Wednesday, 27 September 2017

DOUBLE REFRACTION

When a beam of light of unpolarized light is allowed to pass through a calcite crystal, it is split up into two refracted beams in place of the usual one as in glass. This phenomenon is known as double refraction and was first discovered by a Dutch philosopher Erarmus Bartholinus in the year 1669. 

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