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Light pollution - does anyone care?
The Science of His Dark Materials
Why is the sky blue?
Science Places
Time Twins
How do 3D films work?
Aunt Sally's video
Where is that draught coming from?
How do 'invisibility cloaks' work?
What is the Higgs Boson?
Are lightsabers possible?
What is a mirage?
A beginners' guide to exoplanets
How do brewers control the colour and taste of their beer?
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Showing 31 - 40 of 231
Showing 31 - 40 of 231
Magic Factory
Includes a number of games about light and colour - reflection, spectrum, speed of light, optical illusions and refraction. Teachers notes available.
Hits: 2249
Bending Light
Calculation of the deflection of starlight expected due to bending of light close to a large mass, plus some observed results.
Hits: 982
A Quintessence of So Subtle a Nature
The historical development of a model for light. In particular the nature of light and its propagation as a wave in the ether.
Hits: 780
Faster than the speed of light? We'll need to be patient
Comment by Professor Jim Al-Khalili on why he doesn't believe neutrinos really do travel faster than light.
Hits: 2010
Plane polarised light
A simple, easy to understand explanation of polarised light, using the analogy of a piece of string.
Hits: 1652
Speed Of Light
Experimental measurements of the speed of light have been refined in progressively more accurate experiments since the seventeenth century.
Hits: 851
Fluorescent lamp
Have you ever wondered how a fluorescent light works? Even though they're nearly as commonplace as normal light bulbs their unusual shape and well-known idiosyncrasies make them seem more mysterious.
Hits: 895
Reflection, the Ray Model of Light and mirrors
A high school physics tutorial on how light is reflected, also covering plane, convex and concave mirrors.
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Hits: 2790
The Speed of Light - A Limit on Principle?
Paper discussing the possibilities for superluminal (faster-than-light) travel. Geometric and algebraic comparison of Galilean and Minkowski space-time properties. Several links and references.
Hits: 1383
Light
This site gives details of a series of demonstrations on light, giving details of how to set-up the demonstration and any safety hazards.
Hits: 874
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