Discovered by Michael Faraday in 1845, the Faraday effect was the first experimental evidence that light and electromagnetism are related. The theoretical basis of electromagnetic radiation (which includes visible light) was completed by James Clerk Maxwell in the 1860s.

Faraday effect, in physics, the rotation of the plane of polarization (plane of vibration) of a light beam by a magnetic field. Michael Faraday, an English scientist, first observed the effect in 1845 when studying the influence of a magnetic field on plane-polarized light waves.

This "optical rotation" is called the Faraday rotation (or Farady effect) and differs in an important respect from a similar effect, called optical activity, occurring in sugar solutions. In a sugar solution, the optical rotation proceeds in the same direction, whichever way the light is directed.

This experiment is concerned with the measurement and interpretation of the Faraday effect - magnetically induced circular birefringence. The experiment reveals a fundamental connection

The Faraday effect refers to a magneto-optic phenomenon discovered by Michael Faraday in 1845. It is the rotation of the polarization plane of an electromagnetic wave in a material under the influence of a magnetic field.

When exposed to a magnetic field, most transparent media exhibit the so-called Faraday effect (named after Michael Faraday, who discovered the effect in 1845). For a linearly polarized light beam propagating through the medium, the polarization direction is rotated.

In this experiment, you will measure the Faraday effect for two different media and three different wavelengths of light. The results will be analyzed in terms of the optical dispersion of the media and the classical model first described by Fitzgerald. The geometry of electromagnetic waves is shown below in Figure 1.

The Faraday effect, also called Faraday rotation, occurs when the direction of polarization of an electromagnetic wave is changed when the wave passes through a piece of transparent material permeated by a magnetic field.

The Faraday Effect is the phenomenon where the polarization plane of light is rotated when it passes through a material under the influence of a magnetic field.

2019年8月20日 · The Faraday effect causes a rotation of the plane of polarization which is linearly proportional to the component of the magnetic field in the direction of propagation. This effect occurs in most optically transparent dielectric materials (including liquids) under the influence of magnetic fields.