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• - Timeline of optics-related historical moments.
  
• - How optical fibers work, and information on reflection, refraction, Snell's Law, total internal reflection and critical angles.
  
• - Why does light reflecting off a lake or ocean appear to be "smeared" into a long strip?.
  
• - A collection of information, lessons and quizes about photonics, taught by Tux.
  
• - Tutorial with bibliography.
  
• - Fascinating facts about polarized light, from rainbows to beetles, from viking navigation to LCD displays. Myths and truth about polarized sunglasses. Also a shop with polarized-only items.
  
• - A book and a downloadable moire demonstration kit for printing on transparencies.
  
• - Seven-segment detailed explanation uses drawings and animations to show how light works and how photons are generated, with many related links.
  
• - Photo gallery plus directions to make a pinhole camera, take pictures and develop them. Also, links to other pinhole camera sites.
  
• - An overview of the basics of optics suitable for elementary school children. Also discusses careers in science and engineering.
  
• - (Univ of Florida). A sample electronic lecture or worksheet.
  
• - Prominent Fraunhofer lines in the spectrum of the sun are shown, together with their corresponding wavelengths. Very pretty!
  
• - Offers lessons and activities for infrared light. Also, includes has online tutorials, games and graphic galleries that related to this topic.
  
• - Features hundreds of photomicrographs (photographs through the microscope) of everything from superconductors and high-tech materials to ice cream and beer. Also includes tutorials about microscopy and optics.
  
• - A 3D interactive computer graphics system that instructors can use to help teach optics, and that students can use to simulate and visualize optical phenomena to help them learn about optics.
  
• - History, theory and use of fiber optics.
  
• - Describes how the speed of light was measured. Includes curriculum-based science quizzes about light for K-12 (grades 4 to 7) students.
  
• - Learn about the scanning electron microscope and its uses.
  
  

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