The textbook that is available in an electronic form and as a regular textbook contains six chapters: Introduction to liquid crystals from teacher's point of view, a set of experiments using liquid crystals and illustrating phenomena characteristic for them, a set of experiments that explain functioning of liquid crystal display and a set of acompanying experiments that illustrate phenomena characteristic for liquid crystals but use other materials like wood or plastic foils. The last two chapters suggest a structure of a teaching module on liquid crystals for undergraduates and an overview of existing literature that allow lecturer to advance the teaching of the subject.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10395209
The paper reports on an experiment that evidently demonstrates a direction dependency of extraordinary refraction index. The setup of presented experiment allows for detailed measurements of direction dependency of refraction index. The experiment was developed for advanced optics courses or soft matter physics courses at the university level.
COBISS.SI-ID: 9541705
The paper reports on a module about liquid crystals. It gives the structure of the module, the light motive for teaching and describes the activities during the lecture and during students' activities in the laboratory. Results of evaluation are also presented.
COBISS.SI-ID: 9606473
The paper reports on one from the series of experiments that were developed to support an introduction of phenomena characteristic for liquid crystals, but they use materials, which are easiear manipulated and provide visual evidences for the phenomena. Clearly seen wood fibres in the wood structure allow for a visual evidence of reasons for various polarizations states in dependence on polarization and a direction of propgation of microwaves. The paper was chosen to be illustrated by a video clip at the journal's webpage.
COBISS.SI-ID: 9559113
Conoscopic figure of anisotropic materials is one of fundamental methods for recognition and measurements of optical anisotropy. The paper presents a set of experiments that helps the student to gradually construct comprehension of this complex method.
COBISS.SI-ID: 10386761