Web-based tutorials & applets

Physics 1230 "Light and Color" for nonscientists, Fall 2008

General:

http://www.colorado.edu/physics/2000

http://www.color-tec.com/color.htm

http://www.yorku.ca/eye/toc.htm

Useful web links on electromagnetic radiation and resonance:

• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/java.html (scroll to tutorials on Electromagnetic Radiation)
• http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/visible.html
• http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/infrared.html
• http://imagers.gsfc.nasa.gov/ems/

Useful web links on eclipses and shadows and reflections:

• http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/shadow/shadow.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/java.html (scroll to tutorials on Reflection of Light)
• http://www.glenbrook.k12.il.us/gbssci/phys/mmedia/waves/fix.html
• http://www.mreclipse.com/Special/SEprimer.html
• http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0311/112003lunareclipse_koehn.gif

Useful web links on curved mirrors

• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/mirrors/concavemirrors/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/mirrors/concavemirrors3d/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/mirrors/convexmirrors/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/mirrors/convexmirrors3d/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/mirrors/concave.html

Useful web links on lenses

• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/lightandcolor/lenseshome.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/lenses/simplethinlens/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/lenses/converginglenses/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/lenses/diverginglenses/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/components/perfectlens/index.html
• http://micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/mirrors/convex.html

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