Applet of light polarization and Fresnel laws

Part of Joptics, an ensemble of teaching resources for Physical Optics at university level as part of physics or optics and optometry studies. http://www.ub.edu/javaoptics/index-en.htmlPodeu consultar la versió en català a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/14325 ; i en castellà a: http://hdl.handle.net/2445/14385This applet lets you study light polarization and its reflection and refraction in isotropic media. It shows how to obtain the different polarization states of light from the superposition of two plane waves and it studies Fresnel coefficients for an incident wave on a surface separating two media, the first being a dielectric and the second either a dielectric or a conductor