Light and Electricity Explained: Lecture notes on optics and electrical science from the Royal Institution courses brings together a classic, reformatted companion to John Tyndall’s teaching.
This edition covers the core ideas of light, its paths, images, and behavior, along with foundational electrical science and magnetism.
The volume presents a concise, student-friendly tour of how light travels in straight lines, how images form through small apertures, and how shadows arise. It surveys the nature of transparent and opaque bodies, discusses reflection and refraction, and introduces the phenomena of polarization and the behavior of crystals. The accompanying electricity sections trace voltaic and electro-magnetic phenomena, the theory of currents, and basic electro-chemistry, all with an eye toward practical understanding and experimental insight.
What you’ll experience
- Clear explanations of light’s path, shadows, and the formation of images
- Accessible coverage of reflection, refraction, and polarization
- A practical introduction to electric currents, magnetism, and electro-chemistry
- Contextual notes tying theory to classic experiments and observations
Ideal for readers who want a solid, approachable foundation in optics and electricity, suitable for study, review, or general science enrichment.
John Tyndall resides in London, Ontario. His publications include Thirteen Poems: From the Bruce Peninsula (1974), Howlcat Fugues. This book was also chosen by the Library Journal as one of the ten best small-press poetry books of 1976.His first book published by Black Moss was titled Free Rein (2001). His poems have also appeared on thespoken-word CD entitled Souwesto Words: 25 Poets In Southwestern Ontario, Canada (1999) and in the anthologies That Sign of Perfection, Losers First, I Want to Be the Poet of Your Kneecaps, Henrys Creature, and Following the Plough..Tyndalls poetry has been praised in the University of Toronto Quarterly for its strange iridescent language, and by the Library Journal for its Osurrealistic melding of poetry and art.