Optics Resources

Just in case we missed it during the optics chapter, here it is again: the Young experiment at our fingertips with no set-up involved.

What do we really see when we see things? Minds will be blown.

Minute Physics has this thing down. Lasers are advanced optical instruments, requiring math above and beyond what we learned thus far, yet we can understand the principles.

Why does light slow down when it travels through glass? We've always wondered.

Mirrors show off their moves in this Science Theater video. Next stop: Broadway!

This online video game is for the puzzle solvers who know the basics of optics. Use mirrors and lenses to guide a laser beam through mazes. Gamers welcome.

Could using different wavelengths of light to make astronauts more alert or sleepy? Huh. We never thought about light's power by color before.

Want to know more about how total internal reflection carries voices, pictures, and email messages in fiber optic cables? Now's our chance.

This may be a throwback to our preschool days but it's still awesome. Take a makeshift "microscope" out to a stream, a puddle, or a tide pool and start looking at all the creepy-crawlers we can't see by naked eye.

Fighting climate change with a giant sunshade made of 16 trillion glass lenses, circling the Earth and refracting sunlight to bend it around our planet? Sounds like the stuff of science fiction.

Using mirrors to reflect sunlight, scientists light up the Golden Gate Bridge for its 75^th birthday. What a riot!