This might be more of a simple engineering question, but does work hardening (cold worked) of say a metal create smaller, more numerous crystal grains (and thus, more grain boundaries)? or does it just create dislocations in the crystal?
Oh, I was referring to what happens after the e-wave and o-wave exit from an anisotropic sample at the stage area of a polarized light microscope. From what I understand (probably incorrectly), the individual wavelengths of light in each wave are retarded at different rates. When the two waves...
I'm not a physics whiz, so please be patient with me!
I understand that when polarized light passes through an anisotropic sample, it bifurcates into the o-ray and the e-eay. The two rays emerge out of phase to each other and when they hit the polarizer, they recombine. Due to the fact that...
Hi, I'm new to this forum, and am not a genius in any way, so I hope you'll be patient with me.
I've been reading up on petrographic microscopes and understand that unpolarized light is filtered through a polarizer in order to get the EM wave electric fields to oscillate in the same...