| Optics 4 Kids - Tells about the science of light and answers common questions. Also explores careers in optics. From the Optical Society of America.
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| Optics for Kids - An overview of the basics of optics suitable for elementary school children. Also discusses careers in science and engineering.
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| The Speed of Light - Describes how the speed of light was measured. Includes curriculum-based science quizzes about light for K-12 (grades 4 to 7) students.
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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.
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| How Does a Pinhole Camera Work? - Explains the principles behind the pinhole camera.
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| How Stuff Works: Light - Seven-segment detailed explanation uses drawings and animations to show how light works and how photons are generated, with many related links.
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| Java Applet - Java applet exploring reflection and refraction of light beam and laser beam.
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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.
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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.
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| Light Refraction - Uses example of sphere on a checkerboard to show how light is refracted.
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| The Electromagnetic Spectrum - From NASA, an overview of the different types of electromagnetic waves.
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| Colorworm Explains Color: A Free Book - Both a science and an art book, Colorworm explains the electromagnetic spectrum, visible light, how we see, mixing paint, RGB, and CMYK with library look-up and a storytime cut-out. Target audience is grades K-8.
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| Color and Color Vision - Explains additive and subtractive colour mixing, the mixing of wavelengths, Newton's dispersion of white light to show the colours of the rainbow.
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| Light and Colour - Explains how we see colour and discusses the mixing of frequencies.
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| Molecular Expressions: Science, Optics and You - An educational resource for the science of optics and the physics of light and color intended for teachers, students, and the general public.
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| Optics for Kids - Includes a section on careers in optics, vision and color, optics in nature, optics and laser lab, and biomedical and health applications.
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| How we see Colour - Explains human perception of colour and optical illusions in depth with clear diagrams.
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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.
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