- HowStuffWorks: How Light Works
Presents different ways of thinking about light, addresses what it actually is, how colors are made, and other aspects of the phenomenon.
www.howstuffworks.com/light.htm
- Polarization.com: Polarized Light in Nature and Technology
Explores the invisible world of polarized light.
www.polarization.com
- Lighting Academy Portal
Portal on lighting featuring lighting designers, organizations, projects, and light art collections.
www.lightingacademy.org
- Light Tour
Find out about types of light, space images in different types of light, light wavelengths, and why astronomers need to use them.
cse.ssl.berkeley.edu/light/light_tour.html
- A to Z of Optics
Offers optics/photonics information, including news, new products, optics company directory, events, jobs, and more.
www.azooptics.com
- Optics
Online physics textbook by Benjamin Crowell covering the ray model of light, images by reflection, refraction and images, and wave optics.
www.lightandmatter.com/area1book5.html
- OpticsForTeens
Provides information about what optics is and what people in optics do, cool online lab experiments, and optical illusions to play around with.
www.OpticsForTeens.org
- How Far Does Light Go?
Debate project which engages students in an examination of the scientific properties of light by engaging them with relevant evidence from the Web.
www.kie.berkeley.edu/KIE/web/hf-description.html
- Eric Weisstein's World of Physics: Optics
Provides information about and equations and laws for refraction, diffraction, polarization, and reflection.
scienceworld.wolfram.com/physics/topics/Optics.html
- Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics & You
Designed to promote the asking and answering of questions related to light, color, and optics.
micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/index.html
- Patterns in Nature: Light and Optics
Offers readings, activities, and exercises dealing with a particular concepts in light, optics, or microscopy.
acept.la.asu.edu/PiN/info/patt.html
- What are Those Squiggly Lines? Using Light to Learn About the Universe
Makes the concepts of light and astronomical spectroscopy understandable at a middle school to high school level.
violet.pha.jhu.edu/~wpb/spectroscopy/spec_home.html
- Computer Animations of Physical Processes: Optics
Illustrates and explains the reflection and refraction of light, Fraunhofer diffraction, color vision theory, lasers, and related topics.
physics.nad.ru/Physics/English/optics.htm
- Exploratorium Science Snacks: Snacks About Refraction
Miniature versions of some of the most popular exhibits at the Exploratorium that teachers can use in their classrooms.
www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/iconrefraction.html
- Wave Properties of Light
Examines some of the properties of light that can only be understood in terms of a wave-like description.
theory.uwinnipeg.ca/physics/light/node1.html
- lightsources.org
News, information, and educational materials about the world's light source facilities, accelerator-based sources of exceptionally intense, tightly focused beams of x rays and ultraviolet radiation, as well as infrared.
www.lightsources.org/cms
- Optics2001.com
Features an online library of technical documents, forums, a directory, and other member services.
www.optics2001.com/Message.php
- Fundamentals of Optics, The
Introduction to the scientific study of light.
www.play-hookey.com/optics
- What Is Light?: No One Really has the Faintest Idea
Review of the book, The Fire Within the Eye: A Historical Essay on the Nature and Meaning of Light, by David Park.
slate.msn.com/default.aspx?id=3134
- Molecular Expressions Microscopy Primer: Light and Color
Explores many of the aspects of visible light starting with an introduction to electromagnetic radiation and continuing through to human vision and the perception of color.
micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/index.html
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