Spectroscopy

First Principles

1. The High Pressure Mercury Vapor lamp.
2. The Author's Lamp Collection.

The Double Amici Prism Hand-held Spectroscope

1. The Double Amici Prism Hand-held Spectroscope.

The Phasmatron Spectroscope

1. The Phasmatron Spectroscope and its Operational Diagram.
2. Optical Characteristics of SF10 Crystal Prisms.
3. Mechanical Resolution Of The Phasmatron Spectroscope.
4. Calculating The Deviation Angle For A Prism.
5. Spectrum Angular Width in The Phasmatron Spectroscope.
6. Measuring Wavelengths With The Phasmatron Spectroscope.
7. Ghost Images In The Phasmatron Spectroscope.
8. System Resonance For 2xSF10 Crystal Prisms.
9. Photography Using The Phasmatron Spectroscope.

A Toy Spectroscope!

1. An Improved Toy Spectroscope and its Operational Diagram.

The Eyeglass Wearer's Spectroscope!

1. The Eyeglass Wearer's Spectroscope.

Spectrum Photographs

The black and white photographs were taken with an Exacta Varex 35 mm reflex camera loaded with Agfapan 100 Panchromatic film. The color photographs were taken through the three spectroscopes with a Nikon CoolPix 2200 digital camera. The source was either a suitable High Intensity Discharge lamp or a homemade DC arc device. Spectrum photos were processed with Photoshop, MW Snap 3 and Iris.

1. Spectra Samples of Mercury.
2. Spectra Samples of Sodium.
3. Spectra Samples of Iron.
4. Spectra Samples of Copper.
5. Spectra Samples of Cadmium, Lead, Silver, Aluminum, Tungsten, Nickel, Cobalt and Zinc.
6. Spectra Samples of Neon, Xenon, Lithium, Calcium, TV, Sol, Various.
7. Self-Absorption/Spontaneous Reversal of Spectral Lines.

Lamp Engineering

1. The Science of Color, the Emission Spectra of the Elements and Some Lamp Engineering Applications.

Ray-Tracing Rendering

1. An Application of Spectroscopy to Ray-Tracing Rendering.

Function/data graphs were made with Claris CAD and Maple and geometrical schematics with EucliDraw.

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