A user with 804 edits. Account created on 28 August 2017.
21 February 2024
- 22:06 22:06, 21 February 2024 diff hist −7 Index ellipsoid Rearranged sentence in attempt to reduce risk of confusing propagation direction with direction parallel to wavefront (as last editor apparently did).
3 February 2024
- 05:05 05:05, 3 February 2024 diff hist +219 User:Gavin R Putland Update. current
27 January 2024
- 11:00 11:00, 27 January 2024 diff hist +323 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
6 January 2024
- 04:43 04:43, 6 January 2024 diff hist +185 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
28 December 2023
- 22:42 22:42, 28 December 2023 diff hist +11 User:Gavin R Putland Formatting.
- 22:34 22:34, 28 December 2023 diff hist +181 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
11 November 2023
- 05:48 05:48, 11 November 2023 diff hist +16 Vector calculus →External links: Corrected link.
30 September 2023
- 05:07 05:07, 30 September 2023 diff hist +4 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
6 September 2023
- 02:29 02:29, 6 September 2023 diff hist +41 User:Gavin R Putland A qualification.
- 02:26 02:26, 6 September 2023 diff hist 0 User:Gavin R Putland Corrected typo in date.
29 May 2023
- 10:35 10:35, 29 May 2023 diff hist +691 Talk:Physical optics →This page needs work.: Reply Tag: Reply
25 May 2023
- 07:04 07:04, 25 May 2023 diff hist +2 Fermat's principle "effect" --> "affected" (adjective)
14 May 2023
- 12:34 12:34, 14 May 2023 diff hist +59 User:Gavin R Putland No edit summary
9 May 2023
- 08:41 08:41, 9 May 2023 diff hist +155 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
30 April 2023
- 11:24 11:24, 30 April 2023 diff hist +49 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
18 January 2023
- 07:29 07:29, 18 January 2023 diff hist +464 Fermat's principle Updated citations of Born & Wolf to the 7th Ed., and cited a few more pages.
15 January 2023
- 03:31 03:31, 15 January 2023 diff hist +671 Plane of polarization →Fresnel's choice: Added reference to Fresnel's original paper. (Disclosure: the English version is mine, but it's Creative Commons.)
- 03:00 03:00, 15 January 2023 diff hist −33 Plane of polarization Delayed introduction of terms (i) "Poynting vector" and (ii) "plane of vibration" to narrower contexts, because (i) if the propagation direction is taken as the wave-normal direction, that doesn't necessarily coincide with the Poynting vector, and (ii) the planes of polarization and vibration are identical by the new definition but not by the old ones.
19 December 2022
- 21:14 21:14, 19 December 2022 diff hist +248 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
25 November 2022
- 08:51 08:51, 25 November 2022 diff hist +390 Circular polarization Date of presentation of Fresnel's memoir, with additional source (for upcoming bicentenary).
23 November 2022
- 11:09 11:09, 23 November 2022 diff hist 0 Birefringence Undid revision 1123362162 by 2001:638:508:B80:CC92:AFF8:B4EF:DB1A ( talk) Original wording agrees with text and CMG Lee. Or think of quartz: it's positive and the extraordinary ray is the slow ray. Tag: Undo
13 September 2022
- 07:38 07:38, 13 September 2022 diff hist +58 September 16 →1601–1900: Linked cited pages.
- 07:24 07:24, 13 September 2022 diff hist +249 User talk:Gavin R Putland →Photoelasticity: Reply current Tag: Reply
12 September 2022
- 07:32 07:32, 12 September 2022 diff hist −1,993 User talk:Gavin R Putland Removed out-of-date notice.
- 07:20 07:20, 12 September 2022 diff hist +740 User talk:Gavin R Putland →Photoelasticity: Reply Tag: Reply
- 07:00 07:00, 12 September 2022 diff hist +58 Photoelasticity →History: In citation: Added link to first page of reprint, showing date of reading.
20 August 2022
- 10:54 10:54, 20 August 2022 diff hist −217 User:Gavin R Putland One deletion.
1 August 2022
- 10:05 10:05, 1 August 2022 diff hist +378 Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/December 9 Upcoming scientific bicentenary.
- 09:00 09:00, 1 August 2022 diff hist +961 December 9 →1601–1900: Upcoming scientific bicentenary.
- 08:26 08:26, 1 August 2022 diff hist +351 Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/September 16 Upcoming scientific bicentenary.
- 08:18 08:18, 1 August 2022 diff hist +860 September 16 →1601–1900: Upcoming scientific bicentenary.
20 April 2022
- 06:25 06:25, 20 April 2022 diff hist 0 Index ellipsoid Reverted one out of three changes by 99.90.68.104; "the plane of the associated principal semiaxis" is not well defined.
27 February 2022
- 05:01 05:01, 27 February 2022 diff hist +100 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
13 February 2022
- 06:16 06:16, 13 February 2022 diff hist +149 Index ellipsoid →Electromagnetic interpretation: Added citation.
2 February 2022
- 07:54 07:54, 2 February 2022 diff hist +43 Index ellipsoid Added portal bar.
- 07:33 07:33, 2 February 2022 diff hist +62 Crystal optics →See also: Added "Birefringence", "Index ellipsoid", and "Optical rotation".
- 07:29 07:29, 2 February 2022 diff hist +45 Birefringence →See also: Added "Index ellipsoid" and "Optical rotation".
- 07:22 07:22, 2 February 2022 diff hist +42 Optic axis of a crystal →See also: Added two wikilinks.
1 February 2022
- 10:29 10:29, 1 February 2022 diff hist +26 User:Gavin R Putland Update.
- 10:19 10:19, 1 February 2022 diff hist −18,053 User:Gavin R Putland/sandbox ←Replaced content with '{{user sandbox|plain=yes}} <!-- EDIT BELOW THIS LINE -->' current Tags: Replaced Manual revert
- 10:18 10:18, 1 February 2022 diff hist +137 Talk:Index ellipsoid →Indicatrix: Marked as resolved.
- 10:11 10:11, 1 February 2022 diff hist +15,412 Index ellipsoid Major rewrite, addressing call for citations and question on talk page.
- 08:43 08:43, 1 February 2022 diff hist +5 User:Gavin R Putland/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 07:47 07:47, 1 February 2022 diff hist +24 User:Gavin R Putland/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Reverted
- 07:38 07:38, 1 February 2022 diff hist +18,024 User:Gavin R Putland/sandbox No edit summary Tag: Reverted
22 January 2022
- 06:29 06:29, 22 January 2022 diff hist +8 m User:Gavin R Putland No edit summary
- 06:23 06:23, 22 January 2022 diff hist −1,662 User:Gavin R Putland Abridgment.
- 05:41 05:41, 22 January 2022 diff hist +16 User:Gavin R Putland No edit summary
21 January 2022
- 22:36 22:36, 21 January 2022 diff hist +136 Index ellipsoid Corrected error, giving reference.
13 September 2021
- 06:17 06:17, 13 September 2021 diff hist −85 Total internal reflection Reduced repetition.
