Physics, Birds and Blindness

After running out of birds to chase down, I wanted a new challenge.

Introduction The reflection of light at a boundary between media with different refractive indices is one of the most common and important phenomena in all of physics.

So I’ve had some very nice reviews of my book, The Physics of Birds and Birding.

In late May we took what was likely our last guided birding trip ever, in the form of a three-day outing around the Valencia and Alicante regions of Spain.

I just found a small math error in my book.

Pelagic Publishing, based in the UK, is set to release my book, The Physics of Birds and Birding, on May 20.

It was a pleasure to be interviewed along with Martha Steele and Jerry Berrier, two totally blind birders that I am happy to call my friends.

We must have bought this game back in 1993 or 1994.

Dealing with Non-normal Incidence In the previous post we developed the TMM for the special case of light incident in a direction perpendicular onto a multilayer coating.

The Headache of Multiple Layers In the previous post we calculated the effect of a single dielectric layer placed between air and glass, and showed that with a judicious selection of index and thickness, it would serve as an anti-reflection coating that w…