Unweaving the Rainbow: The Physics of Iridescence | Bone Room

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The Bone Room and its fascination with dissecting the wonders found in the natural world continues with this lecture:

“Unweaving the Rainbow: The physics of iridescence” with Tristen Ursell.

The Stanford PhD discusses the optical phenomenon of iridescence which causes the hue of surfaces to change in correspondence with the angle from which that surface is viewed.

Explore how the physical concepts of reflection, refraction and interference of light interacts with materials to cause phenomena like rainbows.

Lecture complete with live simulations of wave optics and hand-on microscopy of minerals & insects.

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