HTML / Javascript equation solver

I always wanted to do simple calculations in HTML and create simple online equation solvers. I spent some time on it and have created a simple equation solver. I have include the code here with lots of comments to try and help others who might want to learn. The biggest issue I had was with the button. I had to use a form input of type button rather than a button element (<button></button>)....

Two Beam Interference Derivation

Derivation of the Two Beam Interference Equation2(function() { var scribd = document.createElement("script"); scribd.type = "text/javascript"; scribd.async = true; scribd.src = "http://www.scribd.com/javascripts/embed_code/inject.js"; var s = document.getElementsByTagName("script")[0]; s.parentNode.insertBefore(scribd, s); })...

Refractive Index of Water

Due to the effects of optical dispersion, the refractive index of water is dependent on the wavelength of light being used. After a long search, I found a good reference for this information (Daimon and Masumura). here is a plot of their data in the visible range: Matlab was used to fit a exponential decay function to the 20oC data: y...

Calcium Chloride (CaCl2) Useful Information

Refractive Index Refractive index is a bulk material property. This property has a real and imaginary part and is dependent on wavelength. The real part describes how light "slows down" or "scatters" in a material and the imaginary part indicates how the material adsorbs light. Typically, a single real value of refractive index will be...

Resume

Download Resume MICHAEL IAN LAPSLEYMIL112@psu.edu | 705 N 4th St., Bellwood, PA 16617 | (260) 437-5264My goal is to advance the fields of Optofluidics, Nanotechnology and Photonics through related research efforts. Education Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Science – Expected in May 2012 The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA GPA: 3.9/4.00 Bachelor of Science in Biomedical...

LGRIN Lens

Mao, X., et al., Lab Chip, Vol. 9, pp. 2050-2058 (2009). We report a tunable optofluidic microlens configuration named the Liquid Gradient Refractive Index (L-GRIN) lens for focusing light within a microfluidic device. The focusing of light was achieved through the gradient refractive index (GRIN) within the liquid medium, rather than...