Determine which surfaces reflect, refract, or absorb light SPI 0407.10.2

Links verified 10/25/2010

1. The anatomy of a lens
   1. Refraction by Lenses
   2. Image Formation Revisited
   3. Ray Diagrams (converging lenses)
   4. Object-Image Relations
   5. Ray Diagrams (diverging lenses)
   6. Object-Image Relations
   7. The Mathematics of Lenses
2. An index of ray optics animations from the Physics Classroom
3. Dark Wet Spot - video explanation of the effect of water on reflection or transmission of light
4. Experiment with mirrors - study reflection at an interactive BBC site
5. Image Formation in Plane Mirrors - [look at lesson 2] a set of pages with great illustrations, animations, and several quizzes
6. Image Formation by Lenses - [look at Lesson 5] a set of pages with great illustrations, and several quizzes
7. Lens Experiment - Java Applet allows students to change lens position
8. Lenses - an interactive optics bench that allows students to investigate the effects of object location on the characteristics of an image - from Shockwave Physics Studios
9. Light Absorption, Reflection, and Transmission - from a chapter on Color and Vision
10. Properties of Light - reflection, refraction, dispersion, and refractive indices
11. Thick Lens java applet which allows your students to manipulate the variables
12. Thick Lens Java applet - from another source
13. Wavelike Behaviors of Light - from the Physics Classroom
14. What Makes Things the Color They Are? - good illustrations of each of the elements of this SPI

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