1.3 Instructions for following the course

This course has been developed as to be HTML5 compliant with support for older browsers. The design has take into account the visualization on mobile devices. If you're having problems to visualize this site correctly, please update your browser to the latest version.

Animations are provided to ease the understanding of concepts and phenomena. Users can replay the animations by updating the page (F5). Animations can be visualized if your web browser have JavaScript enabled. Below you should see a sample animation.

The information of each section is presented in consecutive pages, and you can browse the contents by simple action of the buttons Previous or Next.

The access to specific topics is possible by choosing the proper section heading from the table of contents.

Photographs from instruments are included for illustration of the provided concepts, but without any advertisement purpose. The models shown in no way imply any preference in performance or comparison as to other similar instruments.