The Physics Classroom: Reflection and Ray Model of Light: The Law of Reflection

In this physics tutorial, students investigate the method for drawing ray diagrams for objects placed at various locations in front of a concave mirror.

Students explore this simple physics principle: In order to view an object, you must sight along a line at that object; and when you do light will come from that object to your eye along the line of sight.

This illustrated physics tutorial uses animations to attempt to explain to students why images appear.

Discover how light reacts when it strikes mirrors which are placed at right angles to each other.

Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students learn about real and virtual images.

An illustrated physics tutorial which explains the spherical aberration, an intrinsic defect with any mirror that takes on the shape of a sphere.

Illustrated examples and interactive practice problems that introduce students to the concept of the critical angle, the angle of incidence that provides an angle of refraction of 90-degrees.

In this interactive physics tutorial about refraction, students investigate the topic of the direction of bending of a light wave.

In this illustrated physics tutorial, students investigate the connection between light reflection and light refraction.

Students use this tutorial to investigate the refractive ability of converging and diverging lenses.