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- 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.
www.yorku.ca/eye/color.htm
- 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.
php.iupui.edu/~pellison/colorworm/home.html
- How Does a Pinhole Camera Work? - Explains the principles behind the pinhole camera.
www.howstuffworks.com/question131.htm
- How Light Works - Explains light in terms of photons to explain reflection, refraction and absorption.
www.howstuffworks.com/light.htm
- Java Applet - Java applet exploring reflection and refraction of light beam and laser beam.
www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/light/flashLight.html
- Light - Defines key terms, discusses reflection, refraction and the change of speed of light through different media.
www.physics4kids.com/files/light_main.html
- Light and Optics - Many concepts are discussed such as lenses (concave,convex), reflection, refraction, spectrum, shadows, optical devices and optical illusions.
camillasenior.homestead.com/optics.html
- Light and Optics: Online Meteorology Guide - Introduces optical effects resulting from light interaction with air, dust and haze particles, ice crystals and water droplets.
ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/home.rxml
- Light Refraction - Uses example of sphere on a checkerboard to show how light is refracted.
id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/light/rayOptics/refraction/refraction1.html
- Optics 4 Kids - Tells about the science of light and answers common questions. Also explores careers in optics. From the Optical Society of America.
www.optics4kids.org
- Optics for Kids - An overview of the basics of optics, also discusses careers in science and engineering.
www.opticalres.com/kidoptx.html
- 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.
www.skytopia.com/project/light/light.html
- The Electromagnetic Spectrum - From NASA, an overview of the different types of electromagnetic waves.
imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/ems.html
- 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.
physics.bu.edu/~duffy/PY106/Reflection.html
- The Speed of Light - Defines the speed of light and describes how man learned to measure it. Includes interactive quiz.
www.what-is-the-speed-of-light.com
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