YP Refraction 1.0 (for physics teachers)

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YP Refraction 1.0

A tool to learn all about the refraction of light with a Mac.

Updated: September 1998

Author: Yves Pelletier
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
WWW: http://www.kagi.com/pelletier

Price: $15 US

Program description:
YP Refraction is designed to assist teachers and students when they learn
the laws of refraction in geometrical optics (Snell's law). The program
provides a laser source that can be moved around a prism. Six different
prisms are available: a simple frontier between two media of different
index of refraction, a semicircular prism, square prism, a rectangular
prism, two triangular prisms (60°-60°-60° and 90°-45°-45°). The user can
change the indices of refraction. The normal at each point of incidence,
the angle of incidence, the angle of refraction, the indices of refraction
and the direction of propagation are displayed. The obtained diagram may
be printed, copied to the clipboard, or saved as a PICT file.