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Light and Optics
- Timeline, interactive java applets showing various properties of light and lenses, tutorials, and other links for students.|
» Color and Color Vision - Explains additive and subtractive colour mixing, the mixing of wavelengths, Newton's dispersion of white light to show the colours of the rainbow.
» Colorworm Explains Color - An online book about light and color for all ages. Explains the electromagnetic spectrum, visible light, RGB, CMYK, light, and mixing paint colors. By Pat Ellison.
» How Does a Pinhole Camera Work? - Explains the principles behind the pinhole camera.
» How Light Works - Explains light in terms of photons to explain reflection, refraction and absorption.
» How we see Colour - Explains human perception of colour and optical illusions in depth with clear diagrams.
» Java Applet - Java applet exploring reflection and refraction of light beam and laser beam.
» Light Refraction - Uses example of sphere on a checkerboard to show how light is refracted.
» Light and Optics: Online Meteorology Guide - Introduces optical effects resulting from light interaction with air, dust and haze particles, ice crystals and water droplets.
» LightForest: The Holographic Rainforest - Explains what is an hologram and the physics behind it. Also shows a variety of examples gathered in a virtual exhibition.
» MicroWorlds - An educational tour of current research at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. Contains information about the facility research, and teaching modules.
» Optics 4 Kids - Tells about the science of light and answers common questions. Also explores careers in optics. From the Optical Society of America.
» Optics for Kids - An overview of the basics of optics, also discusses careers in science and engineering.
» Science Snacks About Light - A set of very simple experiments featured by Exploratorium, each one with details on materials, assembly, how can be done, and an explanation of the physical laws involved.
» Skytopia - Colour and Light Trivia - Amusing guide lists various oddities about colour and light. Find trivia on 3D, mirrors, light bulbs, and contradictions about the perception of colour.
» The Electromagnetic Spectrum - From NASA, an overview of the different types of electromagnetic waves.
» The Reflection and Refraction of Light - Uses geometry to predict reflection from plane and spherical mirrors, and looks at how speed and wavelength varies with different media.
» What Makes an Object Coloured - Explains principles of reflection, refraction, absorption and transmission to explain how objects are a particular colour.
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