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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.

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How laser speed guns work

A good explanation of how laser speed guns are used to measure a car's speed. There are links off to related questions.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/question396.htm

Maxwell Speed Distribution

The speed distribution for the molecules of an ideal gas is given by Maxwell's speed distribution

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/kinetic/kintem.html#c3

Speed of Light

A basic site dealing with the speed and wavelength of electromagnetic waves.

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http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000/waves_particles/lightspeed-1.html

Speed Of Light

Experimental measurements of the speed of light have been refined in progressively more accurate experiments since the seventeenth century.

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/relativ/ltrans.html#c3

Speed of Sound Calculator

A simple program that allows you to calculate the speed of sound according to temperature and humidity and pressure.

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http://resource.npl.co.uk/acoustics/techguides/speedair/

The Speed of Sound

The first analytical determination of the speed of sound was given by Isaac Newton in Proposition 49 of Book II of the Principia. For sea level air at a typical ambient temperature he computed a ...

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http://mathpages.com/home/kmath109/kmath109.htm

Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism, first published in 1865, suggests that light propagates as a wave with a fixed characteristic speed. It was commonly assumed that this speed must be evaluated ...

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http://mathpages.com/home/kmath141/kmath141.htm