Chronology Current Month Current Thread Current Date
[Year List] [Month List (current year)] [Date Index] [Thread Index] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Date Prev] [Date Next]

POLARIZATION

On Sat, 13 Jun 1998 12:13:54 jmclean@chem.ucsd.edu (James Mclean) wrote:

If linear polarization can be described as a superposition of circular
polarization, and vice versa, how can one be more 'basic' than the other?

Linear is more basic because it can be comprehanded without "circular".
And it is conceptually more simple.

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Physical reality does not have to agree with our ideas. But in physics
our ideas must agree with that reality. Otherwise it is not physics.

Ludwik Kowalski kowalskiL@alpha.montclair.edu, MS at MSU, New Jersey
----------------------------------------------------------------------