This tutorial reviews over the properties of light. Students will learn about reflection and refraction through videos, questions, and interactive activities.

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

Explore bending of light between two media with different indices of refraction. See how changing from air to water to glass changes the bending angle. Play with prisms of different shapes and make rainbows.

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.

Through an illustrated tutorial and some interactive practice problems, students learn about the law of reflection of light.

An illustrated article helps students understand the concept of reflection of images and the differences in reflection with different optical devices.

Informational site provides illustrated tutorial of light reflection. Also discusses the law of reflection.

Manipulate variables and measure angles as light is refracted in this interactive simulation.

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

Rainbows and sunsets are called "atmospheric optics". They can be caused by light being absorbed, reflected, scattered, refracted, or diffracted by particles in the atmosphere. Learn all about different atmospheric optics along with...

[Free Registration/Login may be required to access all resource tools.] Students learn about total internal reflection. More specifically, they will learn what the critical angle is, how it is derived and how to solve for it in real life...

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

Students can see light reflected and refracted in this demonstration. They will also discover the total internal reflection of light.

Reflection and refraction are explained with an experiment that uses a sheet of paper, cardboard, and other common materials.

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...

This lesson plan engages students in learning about light through multiple sources. Students will learn how light is produced, reflected, refracted, and separated. Students will communicate their findings through an independent project...

Defines the refraction of light and provides an applet for investigating it.

This experiment demonstrates the concept of total internal reflection, using basic materials. Accompanied by a detailed explanation of what's happening, and links to articles on reflection and refraction.

"How Do We Know Light Behaves as a Wave?" An answer is provided in this discussion of the polarization of light and the use of Polaroid filters in sunglasses. The four methods discussed on this page are: polarization by transmission,...

In this activity, you will make a glass object disappear by eliminating the reflection from and the refraction by the glass object.

This illustrated physics tutorial serves as a step-by-step guide to drawing ray diagrams. It includes an opportunity for students to practice and check their answers.

In this video from the Encyclopedia of Physics Demonstrations, students will observe how a laser beam is trapped in a water jet because the light reflects against the surface of the water. [1:03]

This high school resource shows how the blue of the skies and the red of the sunsets can be explained by the interaction of sunlight with atmospheric particles which causes scattering of light.

In this interactive activity adapted from NASA and the U.S. Geological Survey, learn about Earth's albedo (the ratio of reflected vs. incident solar radiation), how pollution alters albedo, and how ice-albedo feedback may accelerate...