Department - Author 1

Physics Department

Degree Name - Author 1

BS in Physics

Date

6-2010

Primary Advisor

John Fernsler

Abstract/Summary

This paper describes two programs I developed to facilitate the study of liquid crystals. The first program is a graphical user interface to increase the accuracy of the birefringence measurements , which relates to their orientational order, by using a camera. The second program was designed to help study the effects of time varying fields on liquid crystals by matching data from a recorded video to oscilloscope data in order to attach data from image analysis to the voltage applied to the cell.

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