Mazz Media
Refraction
Through live action footage and animated diagrams students will come to understand that refraction is the bending of light rays when they go from one medium to another medium of different density. The program explains why light refracts...
Visual Learning Systems
Using Light: Light Interactions
This video examines the various uses of light and the role of different types of lenses in light refraction. The way in which eyeglasses, contact lenses, and binoculars manipulate light to allow us to see better is illustrated. Other...
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...
Visual Learning Systems
Using Light: Light in Action
This video examines the various uses of light and the role of different types of lenses in light refraction. The way in which eyeglasses, contact lenses, and binoculars manipulate light to allow us to see better is illustrated. Other...
Curated Video
Mirage: Why Does It Look Like There's Water On The Road?
The fake puddles of water that we see on the road on a sunny day is due to an optical phenomenon called a mirage, which is caused by the refraction (or bending) of light rays due to different temperatures of the air above the road. On a...
Ancient Lights Media
Refraction in the Atmosphere
Refraction Set: 2. This clip explains the atmospheric refraction that includes mirages, rainbows and sunsets.
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.
Learning Mole
I WONDER - What Is Refraction?
This video is answering the question of what is refraction.
Curated Video
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...
Encyclopaedia Britannica
Experimenting with Refraction
Overview of the concept of refraction of light.
SciShow
How Do Rainbows Form?
SciShow explains how three important ingredients -- sunlight, water, and you -- interact to create the illusion of a rainbow. The colorful details are inside!
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...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Coronas
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Physics of Optics
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Aurora and Unique Phenomena
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Rainbows
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Weatherthings
Weather Things: Haloes
A blue sky and fluffy bright clouds are things that are seen around the world. The atmosphere presents a multitude of sights and phenomena using light, air, water droplets, ice crystals, and dust. Many of the phenomena give clues to...
Higgsino Physics
Jump in Artificial Gravity? - 5 Physics Questions Explained
Physics Quiz. 5 Popular questions answered. Can you solve these questions? Why do spaceships heat up when entering earth but not when exiting?, Why can I touch aluminum foil in the oven and not get burned?, Why are we able to see air...
Weatherthings
Mirage
A mirage is when light does not travel in a straight line and it makes distant things seem to be higher, lower, wider, thinner or just distorted. Light changes path because of differences in air density, which is controlled by...
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...
Curated Video
Exploring the Phenomenon of Rainbows
Explaining how sunlight is refracted and dispersed by water droplets in the atmosphere, this video describes the formation of rainbows and the seven colors that make up their spectrum. The video also explores other unique locations where...
Curated Video
The Science Behind Rainbows
This video provides a clear and concise explanation of how rainbows are formed through the reflection, refraction, and dispersion of sunlight by water droplets in the atmosphere. It also explores different types of rainbows, such as...