Take a look at an organized physics course. The 34-section electronic textbook covers material in AP® Physics 1 and 2. Teachers use the text to supplement lectures and have the class work through the labs. Each section contains...

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

Through illustrated examples, students explore the physics phenomenon of total internal reflection when light travels through several medium boundaries.

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

In this illustrated physics tutorial, students investigate the connection between light reflection and light refraction.

In this series of interactive physics tutorials, students will focus on the wavelike nature of light.

A physics tutorial focused on the behavior of light as it relates to concave mirrors.

Students learn two rules of reflection as it has to do with concave mirrors. These two rules will greatly simplify the task of determining the image locations for objects placed in front of concave mirrors.

Students explore this simple physics principle: In order to view an object, you must sight along a line at that object; and when you do light will come from that object to your eye along the line of sight.

Discover how light reacts when it strikes mirrors which are placed at right angles to each other.

Illustrated examples and practice problems included in this tutorial help students discover how light rays react in multiple mirror systems.

Illustrated examples and interactive practice problems that introduce students to the concept of the critical angle, the angle of incidence that provides an angle of refraction of 90-degrees.

In this physics tutorial, students explore the phenomenon of the fact that without light, there would be no sight.

In this physics tutorial, we will follow a pattern of inquiry for convex mirrors: investigating how convex mirrors reflect light and produce images.

A tutorial which demonstrates how ray diagrams can be used to determine what portion of a plane mirror must be used in order to view an image.

In this physics tutorial, students investigate the method for drawing ray diagrams for objects placed at various locations in front of a concave mirror.

An illustrated physics tutorial which explains the spherical aberration, an intrinsic defect with any mirror that takes on the shape of a sphere.

Students learn two rules of reflection as it has to do with convex mirrors. These two rules will greatly simplify the task of determining the image locations for objects placed in front of convex mirrors.

While a ray diagram may help one determine the approximate location and size of the image, it will not provide numerical information about image distance and image size. To obtain this, students are introduced to the Mirror Equation and...

Understand the physics behind Roy G. Biv, and how rainbows are formed by drawing upon our understanding of refraction, internal reflection, and dispersion.

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.

Through illustrated examples and interactive practice problems, students learn about real and virtual images.

This illustrated physics tutorial uses animations to attempt to explain to students why images appear.

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