Physics: Principles and Problems

Chapter 16: Fundamentals of Light

Web Links


Catching Some Rays
This is a site devoted to solar power; including information on the past, present, and future of the energy source. Name three inventions that use light energy.
( http://whyfiles.news.wisc.edu/041solar/index.html )
Visible and Infrared Imagery
This site explains how to interpret infrared images. Use some of the links to similar images.
( http://octopus.gma.org/surfing/sensing/imagery.html )
Infrared Processing and Analysis Center
This is the home page of IPAC at CalTech. Visit the image gallery of infrared snapshots of space and compare them to pictures taken with visible light.
( http://www.ipac.caltech.edu )
Additive and Subtractive Color
These are sister sites that feature Shockwave animation of colored spotlights that you can manipulate to show how colored light mixes. Predict the result of overlapping the different spotlights and use these pages to test your predictions.
( http://www.explorelearning.com/index.cfm?method=cResource.dspDetail&ResourceID=11 )
Light
Here is an extensive list of labs that deal with light and optics. Perform some of these labs with your teacher's supervision. Describe how a laser and a Bunsen burner can illustrate why a star twinkles.
( http://sprott.physics.wisc.edu/demobook/CHAPTER6.HTM )
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