A reference page that explores how an image is formed in a concave mirror. Page includes a ray diagram that shows the geometrical lines of sight.

Site provides a diagram as well as a scientific explanation of light reflection. Includes links to ray optics, light and physics.

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] In this lesson, students learn how to draw ray diagrams and to solve problems for concave and convex mirrors.

This physics department site features an indexing page for a variety of pages pertaining to atmospheric optics. Topics include rainbows, halos, auroras, mirages, star twinkling, sunsets, green flashes, coronas, and more. Excellent...

Site studies light refraction and provides illustrations several illustration. Contains links to Snell's Law, lenses, ray optics, light and much more.

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.

Through diagrams and illustrations, students explore how images are formed through the physics law of reflection.

Through illustrated diagrams and animations, students explore the broken pencil phenomenon and light refraction.

Illustrated diagrams in this tutorial help students understand the properties and functions of lenses.

Students discover how mirrors affect optics in this module through reading informational text, watching animations, and answering self-checking practice questions.

A discussion of Christian Huygens' contribution to wave optics, and particularly to our understanding of the reflection and refraction of light. Excellent diagrams and a geometric proof on why the law of reflection is mathematically...