{"id":1460,"date":"2016-08-25T17:43:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-optics-wp.pantheonsite.io\/jcwyant\/?page_id=1460"},"modified":"2016-08-25T17:47:40","modified_gmt":"2016-08-25T17:47:40","slug":"wolfram-alpha-and-optics","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/mathematica\/wolfram-alpha-and-optics\/","title":{"rendered":"Wolfram Alpha and Optics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">WolframAlpha<\/a> can be used to solve some optics problems and it is becoming more powerful everyday. Below are some links to WolframAlpha for solving optics problems. Let me know if you find more so I can update my list.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/examples\/Optics.html\" target=\"_blank\">Many Optics Problems<\/a> including most of the following:<\/p>\n<h3>Reflection &amp; Refraction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Snell%27s+law\" target=\"_blank\">Snell&#8217;s Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Fresnel%27s+law\" target=\"_blank\">Fresnel&#8217;s Law<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=refraction+in+a+prism\" target=\"_blank\">Refraction in a prism<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=lensmaker%27s+equation&amp;cdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">Lensmaker&#8217;s equation<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=lens,+f%3D20ft,+o%3D400ft\" target=\"_blank\">Thin lens equation<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Diffraction<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=single+slit+diffraction+d%3D1%2F16+inch,+lambda%3D200nm\" target=\"_blank\">Single slit<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=circular+aperture+a%3D0.2mm,+lambda%3D650nm\" target=\"_blank\">Circular aperture<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Diffraction+grating&amp;cdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">Diffraction grating<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Thin+film+interference&amp;cdf=1\" target=\"_blank\">Thin film interference<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Photon Energy<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=photon+energy&amp;a=*FVarOpt-_**PhotonEnergy.lambda--\" target=\"_blank\">Input: Wavelength<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=photon+energy&amp;a=*FVarOpt-_**PhotonEnergy.nu--\" target=\"_blank\">Input: Frequency<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=photon+energy&amp;a=*FVarOpt-_**PhotonEnergy.omega--\" target=\"_blank\">Input: Angular Frequency<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Lasers<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=HeNe+laser\" target=\"_blank\">Laser info<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=ArF+laser,+KrF+laser\" target=\"_blank\">Compare lasers<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Refractive indices<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=refractive+index+of+moist+air\" target=\"_blank\">Refractive index of humid air<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=refractive+index+ice+-20C\" target=\"_blank\">Refractive index of ice<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=refractive+index+of+water,+wavelength%3D400nm\" target=\"_blank\">Refractive index of water<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=refractive+index+of+natural+diamond\" target=\"_blank\">Refractive index of a material<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Absorption<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=benzene+absorbs+light+up+to+what+wavelength\" target=\"_blank\">UV cutoff wavelength for a chemical<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=Beer-Lambert+formula\" target=\"_blank\">Beer-Lambert law<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h3>Photography<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=f-stop+arithmetic+5.6\" target=\"_blank\">f\/stop arithmetic<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wolframalpha.com\/input\/?i=subject+magnification+10m\" target=\"_blank\">Subject magnification<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/mathematica\/\">&lt;&lt; Back to Mathematica<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WolframAlpha can be used to solve some optics problems and it is becoming more powerful everyday. Below are some links to WolframAlpha for solving optics problems. Let me know if you find more so I can update my list. Many Optics Problems including most of the following: Reflection &amp; Refraction Snell&#8217;s Law Fresnel&#8217;s Law Refraction in a prism Lensmaker&#8217;s equation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":29,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1460","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1463,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1460\/revisions\/1463"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/29"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.optics.arizona.edu\/jcwyant\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}