App of the Month: Optics Physics
The Optics Physics app is designed to serve as a pocket dictionary of all optical characteristics and their analyses, with formulas to find various parameters.
APP name: Optics Physics
Offered by: Learner's Series
Platforms: Android (requires 2.1 and up)
What it does: The Optics Physics app is designed to serve as a pocket dictionary of all optical characteristics and their analyses, with formulas to find various parameters. Areas of study include reflection, laws of reflection, spherical mirrors, formation of image by a spherical mirror, relation between focal length and radius of curvature, law of distances–mirror equation, magnification, linear magnification, refraction of light, laws of refraction, total internal reflection, and critical angle.
Cost: Free
Optical Detection of Defects during Laser Metal Deposition: Simulations and Experiment
June 23rd 2022Igor Gornushkin and colleagues at BAM Federal Institute for Materials Research and Testing in Berlin, Germany studied the feasibility of using optical spectroscopy as a control method for laser metal deposition, and he recently spoke to us about this work. Gornushkin is the 2022 recipient of the Lester W. Strock Award from the New England Chapter of the Society for Applied Spectroscopy (SAS).
