Through informational text, interactive activities, practice problems, and virtual simulations, students explore the properties of electromagnetic waves.

The Nobel Foundation provides a biography of the scientist who won 1926 Nobel Prize Physics, Jean Baptiste Perrin.

Discover what neutron stars and pulsars are and view pictures of them. Includes links to additional resources and lesson plans.

This NASA lesson plan explores the technology of infrared imaging. Students will use infrared images of everyday items to explore infrared technology.

In this activity students will create images of images of images that can repeat forever. Students will recreate this effect by setting up two acrylic plastic mirrors.

Corning serves as a leader in optical fiber technology and this website provides information about the uses of optical fibers in medical imaging, communication, etc., as well as industry news and related resources.

This physics department site provides a discussion and explanation of fiber optics and fiber optic imaging.

This is a ten-question quiz pertaining to spherical mirrors.

This is a site from NASA that contains an interesting and fun way to learn about the electromagnetic spectrum. Kate receives a strange riddle from her grandfather. Find out what it says and go through the gateway to the Land of the Magic...

An interactive Java applet which allows the user to investigate the path of light through a lens shape object. The shape of the object, the index of refraction of the material, and the location of the incident rays can be altered.