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How Fiber Optics Work

A brief description of how Fibre Optics work from HowStuffWorks.com.

http://www.howstuffworks.com/fiber-optic.htm

Explaining fibre optics

Short film from the scicast competition explaining how fibre optics work using total internal reflection.

http://www.planet-scicast.com/view_clip.cfm?cit_id=2857

Matrix Optics

Transcript of the second edition of this book by I.R.Dagg

http://www.bama.ua.edu/~ddesmet/id/idtoc.html

Optical Fiber 101

A tutorial on Fibre Optics from the Corning Company.

http://media.corning.com/flash/opticalfiber/2008/fiber101/fiber101.html

Optics Bench

Animation showing ray diagrams using a converging lens or mirror.

http://webphysics.davidson.edu/alumni/MiLee/java/Final_Optics/optics.htm

The exciting world of Light and Energy

A well illustrated site that covers geometric optics .

http://library.thinkquest.org/22915/

Billiards and Physics

This java applet show you how to use the law of reflection (for optics) in playing pool.

http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/index.php?topic=41

Gallery of Electromagnetic Personalities

Brief biographies of 41 scientists connected with the study of electromagnetism. This site also contains links to a brief history of Optics and Electronics