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The Color of Light
What happens when coloured lights are added. An experiment shows the effects of adding red, green and blue lights. Main site has hundreds of similar useful links with a good search facility.
Colored Shadows - Shadows are not all black and white
When two different-coloured lights shine on the same spot on a white screen, the light reflecting from that spot to your eyes is called an additive mixture because it contains the colours from both ...
Aurora's Northern Lights
Presentation of pictures, photographs, articles and links related to the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights.
How Christmas Lights Work
A brief description of how Christmas Lights work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com.
How Solar Yard Lights Work
A brief description of how Solar Yard Lights work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. A good, understandable site.
Fluorescent Light
Although there are a large number of lighting options, the majority of lighting in homes is done by either incandescent or fluorescent lights. Fluorescent lighting has a considerable advantage in ...
Refracted Light
Light travels at different speeds through different materials. When light slows down or speeds up, it bends in a new direction. This bending of light is called refraction.
What are the Northern Lights?
Answer to this from one of the NASA kids sites.
The CSE Light Tour
The light tour will let you discover information about light in the universe and how astronomers make use of light wavelengths.
Messing about with Dr Light
Optics experiments with Infra-Red light, light bulbs and liquid crystal post cards.


