Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
Berkeley Lab: Micro Worlds Project: Advanced Light Source
A discussion of the Advanced Light Source (ALS) facility and its use in material analysis and medicine.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Light
A video and a short quiz on the basic concepts and vocabulary for understanding light energy.
Scholastic
Scholastic: Study Jams! Science: Energy, Light and Sound: Renewable Fuels
A slideshow and a short quiz on the different types of renewable energy sources.
Project Britain
Primary Homework Help: Light and Shadows Quiz
This resource provides information about light and shadows. In addition, there is a short quiz that can be taken.
PBS
Pbs: Rough Science
Website companion to PBS show, "Rough Science," in which five scientists use their collective expertise to complete a series of tasks. Follow the scientists as they do things like generate electricity, make soap, make antibacterial...
My Science Site
Light and Optics
This resource provides information on light as well as links to additional sites on light and optics.
Annenberg Foundation
Annenberg Learner: Where Is the Player?
Examine how multiple light sources produce shadows of differing darkness and length. Move a player (with four light sources) around the field until your image matches the five other images on the page so you can identify where the player...
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Denmark: What Are Light and Darkness?
In this module, students learn about the different sources of light, what causes darkness, and about shadows.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Schwarzschild Light Wavefront
Apply the Schwarzschild metric to the paths light travels when it radiates in every direction near a black hole. Adjust the position of the light source and observe the effective potential of the paths.
E-learning for Kids
E Learning for Kids: Science: Antilles: What Are the Different Forms of Energy?
Students will learn about the different types and sources of energy, including heat and light, electrical, potential, and kinetic energy.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Investigating Light: A Form of Energy You Can See
Students will investigate how light is a form of energy that travels as waves away from the source. The basis for this lesson is taken from the Houghton Mifflin science curriculum. In the lesson experiments, students will predict if...
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: General Relativity Schwarzschild
Visualization that uses the Schwarzschild metric, showing the orbit light travels near a black hole.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Compton Effect
Simulation demonstrating the Compton Effect; how light is scattered off an electron. Adjust the angle of the scattering to see how Compton's equation can be used to predict the angle of the photon that is scattered.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Special Relativity on Rotated Graph Paper Model
A representation of Minkowski spacetime diagrams using graph paper that is rotated, showing the world lines of three stationary observers with light clocks.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Simultaneity Spacetime Diagram
Manipulate variables in order to observe the effects of relative motion on events such as an explosion and the time at which its light signal reaches a destination.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Sources of Visible Light
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Definition of visible light and what incandescence, luminescence and illumination are and how they occur.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Multiple Slit Diffraction Model
Simulation that shows the diffraction of light through single or multiple slits. Simulation allows modification of the number of slits, slit width, slit separation, and the wavelength.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Gr Kerr Light Program
Using Kerr metric this simulation illustrates the path of light emitted from the equatorial plane near a rotating black hole.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Gr Seeing Program
Using the Schwarzchild metric this simulates the path of light from a black hole also identifying specific time and angle of the light.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Ejs Simultaneity Model
A model for examining the simultaneity of two events where the relative velocity and the wave source, either light or sound, can be manipulated.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Gr Kerr Wavefront Program
Using the Kerr metric this simulation illustrates the directions of light emitted from an equatorial plane near a rotating black hole.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Gr Kerr Wavefront Program
A simulation that uses the Kerr metric to show the distribution of light photon trajectories when near a black hole that rotates. Accompanied by explanatory documentation.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Schwarzschild Light Launch Angle
Visualization that uses the Schwarzschild metric, showing the path light travels near a black hole depending on the angle of its initial launch.
American Association of Physics Teachers
Com Padre Digital Library: Open Source Physics: Schwarzschild Light Impact
Visualization using the Schwarzschild metric, showing the path light travels near a black hole. Adjust the impact parameter and observe effective potential well of the light particle.