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Skytopia - Colour and Light Trivia
Amusing guide lists various oddities about colour and light. Find trivia on 3D, mirrors, light bulbs, and contradictions about the perception of colour.
http://www.skytopia.com/project/light/light.html
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How Does a Pinhole Camera Work?
Explains the principles behind the pinhole camera.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/question131.htm
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How Light Works
Explains light in terms of photons to explain reflection, refraction and absorption.
http://www.howstuffworks.com/light.htm
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The Reflection and Refraction of Light
Uses geometry to predict reflection from plane and spherical mirrors, and looks at how speed and wavelength varies with different media.
http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/PY106/Reflection.html
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Light and Optics: Online Meteorology Guide
Introduces optical effects resulting from light interaction with air, dust and haze particles, ice crystals and water droplets.
http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/opt/home.rxml
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Light Refraction
Uses example of sphere on a checkerboard to show how light is refracted.
http://id.mind.net/~zona/mstm/physics/light/rayOptics/refraction/refraction1.html
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Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You
Timeline, interactive java applets showing various properties of light and lenses, tutorials, and other links for students.
http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/optics/
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How we see Colour
Explains human perception of colour and optical illusions in depth with clear diagrams.
http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour/colour_perception.php
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What Makes an Object Coloured
Explains principles of reflection, refraction, absorption and transmission to explain how objects are a particular colour.
http://www.colourtherapyhealing.com/colour/objects_and_colour.php
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MicroWorlds
An educational tour of current research at Berkeley Lab's Advanced Light Source. Contains information about the facility research, and teaching modules.
http://www.lbl.gov/MicroWorlds/
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