Be Smart
What Color is the Universe?
What colors are the sun, our galaxy, and the universe? An engaging video provides an overview of each and why what we think we are seeing is often wrong. It provides explanations for how to understand colors that aren't in the...
Curated OER
The Visible Spectrum
A prism breaks light into its seven colors to show the visible spectrum. Colored circles of light are combined to show that the primary colors can be incorporated to create every color imaginable! It seems to end abruptly with a...
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: The Electromagnetic Spectrum: Nasa
From radio waves to gamma rays, this video segment from NASA introduces the seven categories of the electromagnetic spectrum and how each type of radiation is part of our everyday lives. [2:58]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Tour of the Electromagnetic Spectrum: Radio Waves
A tour of radio waves in the electromagnetic spectrum. [3:38]
California Institute of Technology
Infrared: More Than Your Eyes Can See
Infrared light may not be visible to the naked eye, but when seen through an infrared camera it can tell a great deal about the subject it's viewing. Learn about visible light and infrared rays in this short video by Dr. Michelle Thaller.
Khan Academy
Khan Academy: Light and Fundamental Forces: Introduction to Light
Provides an introduction to light and the electromagnetic spectrum, and how light behaves as both a wave and a particle. [9:36]
PBS
Pbs Learning Media: Inverse Square Law
This animation from KET's distance learning physics course demonstrates the mathematical formula for a scientific law as it applies to light.
Bozeman Science
Bozeman Science: Electromagnetic Radiation
In the following video Paul Andersen details the waves in electromagnetic radiation. There is an inverse relation between the wavelength and frequency of electromagnetic waves. Electromagnetic radiation includes gamma rays, x-rays,...
Sophia Learning
Sophia: Radiation and Energy: Lesson 1
This lesson discusses the light spectrum and its influence on living things. It is 1 of 3 in the series titled "Radiation and Energy."
Physics4kids
Physics 4 Kids: Types of Light
To understand light you have to know that what we call light is what is visible to us. Visible light is the light that humans can see. Other animals can see different types of light. Dogs can see only shades of gray and some insects can...