Lloyd's mirror
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Lloyd's mirror is an optics experiment that was first described in 1834 by Humphrey Lloyd in the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Its original goal was to provide further evidence for the wave
Figure 2. Young's two-slit experiment displays a single-slit diffraction pattern on top of the two-slit interference fringes.
Thomas Young (scientist)
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Thomas Young was a British polymath who made notable contributions to the fields of vision, light, solid mechanics, energy, physiology, language, musical harmony, and Egyptology. He was instrumental i
Lloyd's mirror
…the Transactions of the Royal Irish Academy. Its original goal was to provide further evidence for the wave nature of light, beyond those provided by Thomas Young and Augustin-Jean Fresnel. In the experiment, light from a monochromatic slit source reflects from a glass surface at a small angle and appears to come…
Portrait of Thomas Young by Henry Perronet Briggs, 1822–6
Plate from "Lectures" of 1802 (RI), published 1807
Volumes I and II of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)
Title page to volume I of A Course of Lectures on Natural Philosophy and the Mechanical Arts (1807)