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The Colour of Light

The Colour 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.

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http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/physics/op-3.html
Refraction and the Ray Model of Light

Refraction and the Ray Model of Light

Useful information driven site which provides details on both how light exhibits the phenomena of reflection and refraction (including total internal reflection).

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http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/Phys/Class/refrn/refrntoc.html
Reflection and the Ray Model of Light

Reflection and the Ray Model of Light

A high school physics tutorial on aspects of reflection, image formation and mirrors (including convex and concave).

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http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/Class/refln/reflntoc.html
Colored Shadows - Shadows are not all black and white

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 ...

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/index.html
Reflection of Light

Reflection of Light

Explains law of reflection,includes interactive Java tutorials. Links to ideas of fluorescence, diffraction, polarization, scattering and virtual microscopy. (Virtual scanning electron microscope ...

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http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/lightandcolor/reflection.html
Billiards and Physics

Billiards and Physics

This java applet show you how to use the law of reflection (for optics) in playing pool. A ball bouncing off the bank of a pool table behaves like a light ray reflecting off a mirror, however note ...

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http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/~hwang/billiards/billiards.html
Patterns in nature - Light and Optics

Patterns in nature - Light and Optics

This is the first of several sections (they are called objectives) within the sub-module Light, Reflection, and Refraction. The first section uses questions and photographs to look at how light ...

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http://acept.la.asu.edu/PiN/mod/light/reflection/pattLight1Obj1.html
Magic Factory

Magic Factory

From the Nation Museum of Film, Photography and Television in Bradford, includes a number of games about light and colour - reflection, spectrum, speed of light, optical illusions and refraction. ...

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http://www.magic-factory.co.uk/
Aurora's Northern Lights

Aurora's Northern Lights

Presentation of pictures, photographs, articles and links related to the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights.

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http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html
Image from rays of refraction or total internal reflection

Image from rays of refraction or total internal reflection

Two parts - the first a fish's view from under water. In the second the position of the cursor is the source of a light ray. Its path from within the water to an observer appears. It is also ...

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http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/optics/path_e.html
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