Curated Video
How Do Rainbows Form?
In this video, you will learn how rainbows are formed through the behavior of light waves. Sunlight, composed of different wavelengths, enters raindrops, causing the light to split into a multitude of colors. As the light refracts and...
Curated Video
Calculating Refractive Index and Angles of Incidence and Refraction
The video explains the concept of refractive index and how it determines the bending of light as it crosses the boundary between two different media. The video also demonstrates how to calculate the refractive index of a material, angle...
Curated Video
Blues in Nature
Blue is a relatively rare color in nature. Learn how texture, water, and other things can bend and distort light to make an object look deceptively blue. Colors part 4
Visual Learning Systems
Sound: Interactions of Sound Waves
When you hear the roar of traffic, the bark of a dog, or your teacher's voice, you are experiencing sound. This program uses colorful animations to explore important characteristics of sound, including intensity, loudness, pitch, and...
Curated Video
The Fascinating World of Optical Camouflage and Invisibility Cloaks
This video explores the concept of optical camouflage and the use of retroreflective materials to create the illusion of invisibility. It showcases the works of artist Desiree Palmen and the invention of the Invisible Cloak illusion by...
Physics Girl
How rainbows with NO COLOR are possible
What the heck are spider-web rainbows? What are these rare white rainbows, and how do they form?
Let's Tute
Refraction of Light and Apparent Sunrise and Delayed Sunset Explained
In this video, we learn about the science behind apparent sunrise and delayed sunset. We explore the phenomenon of refraction of light and its effects on the direction and speed of light as it passes through different mediums. Through a...
Curated Video
Total Internal Reflection and Its Applications
This video provides an explanation of the phenomenon of total internal reflection, which occurs when a wave travels from one material to another and is reflected back instead of refracting. The video also explains how to calculate the...
Curated Video
Understanding Refraction and Ray Diagrams
The video is a lecture on refraction and ray diagrams. It explains how ray diagrams can be used to describe the refraction of waves at the boundary between two different media, such as air and glass. The video covers concepts such as the...
Curated Video
Wave Behavior at Boundaries
The video discusses the different ways in which waves behave when they encounter a boundary between two materials. The behavior can either be reflection, absorption, or transmission or a combination of the three. The video also explains...
FuseSchool
Ray diagrams
Why can you see your reflection in some objects? In this video we will look at ray diagrams for reflection, refraction and colour absorption. Visible light is part of the electromagnetic spectrum. Light is a transverse wave, and travels...
Ancient Lights Media
Understanding Refraction in Animals
Refraction Set: 3. This clip looks at the role of refraction in animals. Examples include the lenses of the eye and structural coloration.
Professor Dave Explains
Color and Refraction
What is color? What is it that determines the color of an object? Good thing we just learned about electromagnetic radiation! Especially the visible spectrum. Let's take a look.
DoodleScience
Refraction and Diffraction _ GCSE Physics
Doodle Science teaches you high school physics in a less boring way in almost no time!
DoodleScience
Converging Lenses _ GCSE Physics
A lens is a piece of transparent material, like glass, that uses refraction to form an image by changing the direction of light. There are two types of lens; converging and diverging. Converging lenses are shown using this symbol. The...
Curated Video
The Science of Iridescence
This video explores the concept of iridescence, where seemingly colorless or differently colored surfaces change their color when viewed from different angles. It explains how iridescence occurs through mechanisms like thin film and...
Curated Video
Reflection and Refraction Experiments
This is a lecture presentation on the topic of reflection and refraction experiments. The presenter explains the key terms involved in the experiment and demonstrates how the changing angle of incidence affects the angles of reflection...
Curated Video
Mirages: Optical Phenomena Explained
The mirage is an optical illusion famous for teasing thirsty desert travelers with illusions of water. Learn how light and heat interact to distort vision and create a mirage. Illusions part 8/11
Higgsino Physics
Why Does Light Bend in Glass? - Refraction and Mirages Visualized with Huygens Principle
Why does light bend when it enters glass and how do mirages happen? Using the Huygens principle, to show why refraction will make the light bend. Also showing why Inferior mirage happens.
All this with the Huygens principle.
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Experimenting with Refraction
Overview of the concept of refraction of light.
DoodleScience
Refraction and Refractive Index _ GCSE Physics
Doodle Science teaches you high school physics in a less boring way in almost no time! GCSE Science
Higgsino Physics
Optical Physics Basics
Optical physics. Explaining and what Refraction, total internal reflection and dispersion is. Refraction is the bending of the light rays path, when it passes a new medium. When the index of refraction is greater in the new medium and...