{"id":2785,"date":"2014-03-28T15:09:39","date_gmt":"2014-03-28T19:09:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/?p=2785"},"modified":"2014-04-05T13:13:27","modified_gmt":"2014-04-05T17:13:27","slug":"project-proposal-diffraction-symmetries-of-c-elegans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/2014\/03\/28\/project-proposal-diffraction-symmetries-of-c-elegans\/","title":{"rendered":"Project Proposal: Diffraction Symmetries of C. elegans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The C. elegans nematode is a common subject of biological studies, and has become more and more popular in physics research. I intend to find the diffraction patterns generated by the worms\u2019 shape and log the findings into a Symmetries Library (with the eventual goal of using Group Theory to get the worm shape directly from a diffraction image).<\/p>\n<p>The shape of the worm (photos to be taken with a microscope) will correspond to a particular diffraction pattern. I will model the Fraunhoufer diffraction patterns (Far-Field diffraction) of the electromagnetic waves (light waves) by generating images with Mathematica using the Fourier Transforms. The idea is that $\\left | Fourier Transform | \\right ^2 $ = the diffraction pattern. This project is a study of the behaviors of light waves.<\/p>\n<p>I will eventually be keeping a log of my findings on the already existing website, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/diffractionsymmetries\/symmetry-library-3\/\">Diffraction Symmetries Library<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The C. elegans nematode is a common subject of biological studies, and has become more and more popular in physics research. I intend to find the diffraction patterns generated by the worms\u2019 shape and log the findings into a Symmetries Library (with the eventual goal of using Group Theory to get the worm shape directly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2785,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4101,54198,54062,188,350,54190],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2785","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-advanced-em","category-diffraction","category-liliana","category-mathematica","category-proposal","category-spring-2014"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2785"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2785"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2838,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2785\/revisions\/2838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/magnes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}