Portrait of Lord Melvyn Bragg, host of In Our Time

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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  1. 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

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    Featuring: Simon Schaffer, Jim Bennett, Emily Winterburn

     
  2. The Photon

    Melvyn Bragg and his guests discuss the photon, the fundamental particle associated with light.

    12 February 2015

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    Featuring: Frank Close, Wendy Flavell, Susan Cartwright