
Optics
Optics is the branch of physics that studies the behaviour and properties of light, including its interactions with matter and the construction of instruments that use or detect it. Optics usually describes the behaviour of visible, ultraviolet, and infrared light.
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Optics
Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the history of optics – from star gazing with a telescope to examining lice under a microscope
1 March 2007
Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett, Emily Winterburn
The Photon
Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle associated with light.
12 February 2015
Featuring: Frank Close, Wendy Flavell, Susan Cartwright