On the Grimaldi Phenomenon

7 Sept 2023, 10:15
20m
Sala Jappelli (INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico)

Sala Jappelli

INAF-Osservatorio Astronomico

Vicolo dell'Osservatorio, 5 - 35122 Padova

Speaker

GANCI, Salvatore (none)

Description

This communication deals with a short but exhaustive historical development of two different viewpoints about the diffraction phenomenon. This foreword to introduce the first and dramatic phenomenology observed since the end of the XVII century. Pedagogical observations are revisited about this first phenomenon observed. Impetus to this paper was given by a critical question posed by a student when Author was teaching some Optics experiments.

Primary author

GANCI, Salvatore (none)

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