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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Reflection and Refraction of Light

For Students 3rd - 9th
What happens when a ball is thrown against a wall? This narrative illustrates how light is reflected or refracted in different circumstances.
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Mocomi & Anibrain Digital Technologies

Mocomi: Refraction of Light

For Students 3rd - 9th
Guide to an experiment to study the refraction of light in a glass of water. Observe why this happens.
Handout
Wikimedia

Wikipedia: Refracting Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
Wikipedia provides detailed information on refracting telescopes, including an image, technical difficulties, and a hyperlinked list to info on notable refracting telescopes.
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Scholastic

Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Light Absorption, Reflection, & Refraction

For Students 3rd - 7th
A video and a short quiz on the properties of light.
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Incorporated Research Institutions for Seismology

Iris: Seismic Wave Behavior: Direct vs. Critically Refracted Graphed

For Students 9th - 10th
Examine the behavior of seismic waves. This graph illustrates direct and critically refracted waves.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Light Dispersion Prisms

For Students 9th - 10th
A tutorial which introduces students to the dispersion of light in more detail, and investigates the reasons why different frequencies of light bend or refract different amounts when passing through the prism.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Rainbow Formation

For Students 9th - 10th
Understand the physics behind Roy G. Biv, and how rainbows are formed by drawing upon our understanding of refraction, internal reflection, and dispersion.
Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Reflection and Refraction of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Defines the refraction of light and provides an applet for investigating it.
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Georgia State University

Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Reflection and Refraction

For Students 9th - 10th
Reflection and refraction are explained with an experiment that uses a sheet of paper, cardboard, and other common materials.
Interactive
Walter Fendt

Walter Fendt: Refracting Astronomical Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
An app for investigating the operation of a refracting telescope. The location of the eyepiece and objective lens can be altered, and the focal point and path of light through the lenses can be observed.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Bubbles and Biosensors

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students learn that color swirls on the bubble surfaces are caused by refraction. Then they apply this theory to thin films in general, including porous films used in biosensors, listing factors that could change the color that become...
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: What Does Light See?

For Teachers 10th - 12th
Students are introduced to the concept of refraction. After making sure they understand the concepts of diffraction and interference, students work collaboratively to explain optical phenomena that cannot be accounted for via these two...
Interactive
University of Colorado

University of Colorado: Ph Et Interactive Simulations: Bending Light

For Students 9th - 10th
Manipulate variables and measure angles as light is refracted in this interactive simulation.
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PBS

Pbs Learning Media: The Beginnings of the Telescope

For Students 9th - 10th
This animated essay from the NOVA Web site examines the design of Galileo's refracting telescope and Sir Isaac Newton's reflecting telescope.
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TeachEngineering

Teach Engineering: Tell Me the Odds (Of Cancer)

For Teachers 10th - 12th
A seven-lesson unit where students learn the concepts of refraction and interference in order to solve this engineering challenge: In 2013, actress Angelina Jolie underwent a double mastectomy, not because she had been diagnosed with...
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Wavelike Behaviors of Light

For Students 9th - 10th
How light waves demonstrate their wave nature by reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Determination of N Values

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students explore the details of Snell's Law.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Converging Lenses

For Students 9th - 10th
The purpose of this tutorial is to summarize object-image relationships by dividing the possible object locations into five general areas or points.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: Total Internal Reflection

For Students 9th - 10th
Through illustrated examples, students explore the physics phenomenon of total internal reflection when light travels through several medium boundaries.
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Diverging Lenses

For Students 9th - 10th
In this illustrated tutorial, students will see a specific method for constructing ray diagrams for double concave lenses.
eBook
Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction/ray Model of Light: The Mathematics of Lenses

For Students 9th - 10th
Using the Lens Equation and the Magnification Equations, students determine numerical information about image distance and image size.
Interactive
Physics Aviary

Physics Aviary: Refraction Lab

For Students 9th - 10th
This lab is designed to have students investigate the changes in angle that occurs when light changes from one medium to another. This video will help describe the problem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gVyCECxhesU
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Physics Classroom

The Physics Classroom: Refraction and the Ray Model of Light: Anatomy of the Eye

For Students 9th - 10th
This tutorial looks at the anatomy of the eye and how the sense of sight works. This is the first part of a learning module. Subsequent sections cover how images are formed and detected, the concept of accommodation where the eye adjusts...
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Center of Science and Industry

Cosi Columbus: Bent Toward Science Refraction

For Students 3rd - 5th
Learn about refraction in this hands-on science experiment. Includes full list of materials, procedures, and scientific explanation of what happens when light moves from one material to another.

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