Students perform a version of the 1800 experiment in which a form of radiation other than visible light was discovered by the famous astronomer Sir Frederick William Herschel.

The Materials Science and Technology Teacher's Workshop (MAST) provides this experiment on fiber optics. The lesson aims to show that light will travel down a glass tube because of internal reflection. This module will...

The Technology Enabled Active Learning (TEAL) Project is supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Physics. Incorporated in the website are resources for the study and teaching of physics,...

Learning the laws and principles of optics is often a challenging task for physics students. The Physics Classroom has developed a great tutorial on Ray Optics to help students understand "how reflection and refraction...

This site, provided by the Center for Science Education at the University of California Berkeley, contains an activity to experiment with shadows and light sources and to understand the relationship between the angle of...