Through illustrated practice problems and video clips, students learn about polarization of light.

How light waves demonstrate their wave nature by reflection, refraction, and diffraction.

In this physics classroom, students learn how and why light of certain frequencies can be selectively absorbed, reflected or transmitted.

This tutorial explains light absorption, reflection and transmission in a clear and concise manner. Provides a "Check Your Understanding" section as well as additional links on color and light.

All waves will reflect and refract in the right circumstances. The reflection and refraction of light explain how people see images, color and even optical illusions. This tutorial discusses each concept and presents an experiment to try...

You've probably noticed the colorful patterns "reflecting" from the shiny surface of a CD disk. What you are seeing is actually diffraction of white light, and the rainbows of color are diffraction patterns. In this project you'll learn...