Playing with Polarizers: a Proposal for an Interdisciplinary Didactic Laboratory on Polarized Light
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https://doi.org/10.5007/2175-7941.2021.e81439Abstract
Polarization is a fundamental property of light, with many practical applications in different disciplines. However, the study of this important characteristic of physics is often overlooked in secondary or high school programs. This is a pity, because polarized light is not only important to understand the nature of electromagnetic waves and how many technological devices in current use work, but it also allows the realization of fun, inexpensive and very instructive experiments, involving Physics, Chemistry, Engineering, Biology and also Art. So we can think of taking advantage of all this to make the study of physics more interesting and the process of learning much participative. With this in mind, we developed an interdisciplinary experimental laboratory on light polarization adaptable to basic, high school and undergraduate students. In this paper, we intend to describe some examples of activities presented in this laboratory and some new illustrations of the properties of polarized light. The feature of our work is the emphasis on the artistic side of scientific visualization and its interdisciplinarity. Furthermore, elementary explanations of some phenomena are given, often difficult to find in Spanish, with a brief historical introduction.
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