CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Physical Science: Law of Reflection
[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Reflection and how it produces an image, regular and diffuse reflection and the law of reflection.
Optical Society
Optical Society of America: Optics for Kids: Mirrors & the Law of Reflection
A simple activity to investigate how light reflects off a flat surface, a convex one, and a concave one. With a link to an article on reflection.
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12: Plix: Law of Reflection: Angle of Incidence
[Free Registration/Login Required] In the scenario shown here, the laser cannot shine through the black barrier but can hit all three targets by reflecting off of the floor. Use the red dot to change the angle of the laser generator and...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Behavior of Incident Light
This site from Georgia State University is an indexing page for several other pages on the topic of reflection. Topics are treated in an understandable manner and utilize meaningful graphics.
Georgia Department of Education
Ga Virtual Learning: Geometric Optics
This interactive unit will help students to understand the basics of geometric optics. Learn what happens when light strikes the boundary between two media as well as the difference between a real and virtual image? Also explore the law...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Prom Night
[Free Registration/Login Required] Understand the Law of Reflection by plane mirrors and the formation of virtual images. Use the simulation to play with variables for a variety of reflections. Further examples explaining how mirrors...
CK-12 Foundation
Ck 12 Exploration Series: Simulations: Physics: Cassegrain Telescope
[Free Registration/Login Required] Learn about the law of reflection by curved mirrors and how the shape and size of a telescope impacts its observing capabilities.
University of Minnesota
University of Minnesota: How Does Light Travel?
Contains a four step procedure to deriving the law of reflection using algebra, Fermat's principle, and calculus (simple derivatives). This is good for an in-class theoretical exercise.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection and the Ray Model of Light
A four-lesson tutorial on the reflection and the ray model of light. These complete tutorials include informational text, interactive activities, animations, and quick, interactive comprehension questions.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Reflection/light Ray Model: Specular/diffuse Reflection
A series of incident rays and their corresponding reflected rays are depicted in the diagrams in this tutorial. Each ray strikes a surface with a different orientation; yet each ray reflects in accordance with the law of reflection.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom:reflection/ray Model of Light: Reflection/image Formation
Through diagrams and illustrations, students explore how images are formed through the physics law of reflection.
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Copyright Infringement or Not? The Debate Over Downloading Music
Contains plans for ten 50-minute lessons that use the issue of downloading music as the topic for persuasive debates. In addition to objectives and standards, this instructional plan contains links to PDF handouts and sites used in the...
ClassFlow
Class Flow: Introduction Lesson on Light
[Free Registration/Login Required] This flipchart is an introduction lesson on light. It explains absorption, transmission, and reflection. It contains real pictures that allow students to see how matter in an object determines how much...
ReadWriteThink
Read Write Think: Technology and Copyright Law a 'Futurespective'
Contains plans for five lessons that ask students to write newspaper articles predicting how copyright law will adapt to new technologies in the future. They will do this after reviewing instances of this in the past. In addition to...
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Lesson 3: Concave Mirrors
Lesson 3 of this tutorial on refraction is on concave mirrors. Content that is covered includes the anatomy of curved mirrors, reflection of light and image formation, ray diagrams, image characteristics for concave mirrors, plus more.
Science Education Resource Center at Carleton College
Serc: Helping Students Discover Total Internal Reflection
After students have learned the basic relationship of Snell's Law, they practice applying it to a situation. Then they are given another situation where it doesn't work, which turns out to be one in which total internal reflection occurs.
New York Times
New York Times: Cyber Law Journal
Cyber Law Journal, a weekly publication of the New York Times, reflects on the legal issues raised by the Internet.
Physics Classroom
The Physics Classroom: Refraction and Ray Model of Light: Boundary Behavior
In this illustrated physics tutorial, students investigate the connection between light reflection and light refraction.
University of New South Wales (Australia)
University of New South Wales: School of Physics: Physclips: Geometrical Optics
Physiclips thoroughly presents geometrical optics concepts like rays, refraction, Snell's law, total internal reflection, dispersion, mirrors, and lenses with animations and film clips.
Walter Fendt
Walter Fendt: Apps Zur Physik
This site, in German, offers numerous apps that illustrate common physics principles. Apps are organized into categories: mechanics, oscillations and waves, electrodynamics, optics, thermodynamics, the theory of relativity, physics of...
Georgia State University
Georgia State University: Hyper Physics: Crossed Polarizers
At this univeristy physics department site, the polarization of light is explained and illustrated. Methods for analyzing light to determine the degree of polarization are stated and explained with equations.
Independence Hall Association
U.s. History: A Revolution in Social Law
Being able to own land and having land availble to own brought about great change in the new American nation. Read about how this came about and why it reflected new republican ideals. See what other changes were reflected in new state...
Boston University
Bu: Optics: Geometric Optics
Several short descriptions of demonstrations which illustrate principles of geometric optics (many of which focus upon refraction).
Teachers TryScience
Teachers Try Science: Where There's Light, There's Hot Food!!!
This unit helps students learn to apply the concept of solar energy conservation. They are introduced to angles and their effect on the amount of light reflected, and they will also design, construct, manipulate, critique, evaluate and...