Shining polarized light into sugar water reveals diagonal stripes of color. Why? Next video: Steve Mould's video on the topic: Help fund future projects: An equally valuable form of support is to simply share the videos. Thanks to Quinn Brodsky for setting up the demo and to the MIT Physics Instructional Resources Lab for their help and materials, especially Josh Wolfe and Caleb Bonyun. Thanks to these viewers for their contributions to translations German: Josh, jns-v Hebrew: Omer Tuchfeld Hungarian: MrExpert Indonesian: akhyarr Italian: Gabboronco Korean: @tebaioioo, Juhyung Persian: Russian: fedor, ilevinson Spanish: Marcelo Lynch ------------------ These animations are largely made using a custom Python library, manim. See the FAQ comments here: #manim All code for specific videos is visible here: The music is by Vincent Rubinetti. ------------------ 3blue1brown is a channel about animating math, in all senses of the word animate. If you're reading the bottom of a video description, I'm guessing you're more interested than the average viewer in lessons here. It would mean a lot to me if you chose to stay up to date on new ones, either by subscribing here on YouTube or otherwise following on whichever platform below you check most regularly. Mailing list: Twitter: Instagram: Reddit: Facebook: Patreon: Website:
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