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General Information
- Introductions: The Mississippi State University Optics Project;
Molecular Expressions™ Interactive Java tutorials.
- Electricity and Magnetism: NASA page
on magnetic fields.
- Electromagnetic waves and spectrum: NASA information
page1
and page2.
- The Dual Nature of Light: Nobel Prize organization page.
- How Light
Works and How
Lasers Work at howstuffworks.com.
Specific Topics on Light (See also the resource page on spectroscopy)
- Colors: Webexhibits.org pages on the Causes
of Color.
- Speed of Light: University of Virginia page;
University of Tennessee page;
University of California Riverside (John Baez) page.
- Diffraction: Dean Dauger's page
on Fresnel diffraction; Exploratorium demo page.
- Polarization: Polarization.com site.
- Refraction: Rick Reed (U of Missouri) page.
- Orbital Angular Momentum: University of Glasgow page.
- Why is the Sky Blue? Science Made Simple page.
- Mirages: SDSU page;
Mirages in Finland page.
Different Kinds of Electromagnetic
Waves
- Uses in astronomy: NASA information page
on different kinds of waves.
- Radio Waves: NASA information page.
- Microwaves: NASA information page,
and applications page.
- Infrared: Gemini North info page;
Stanford history page;
Cool Cosmos site.
- Ultraviolet: NASA information page.
- X-Rays: Chandra X-ray Observatory info page.
- Gamma Rays: NSSTC gamma ray astronomy page.
Books
- Michael I Sobel, Light, University of Chicago Press
1987.
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