Welcome to our web site devoted to teaching people about light. We hope you find the information here useful and interesting.

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The information presented here is designed to be viewed as a sequential tutorial or in any order you want. Below is an outline of the topics discussed.

  1. Introduction to light
    1. What is light?
    2. Light as a wave
    3. Light as a particle
  2. Properties of light
    1. Speed of Light
    2. Polarization
  3. Color
    1. What is color?
    2. Emitted light
    3. Reflected light
    4. Mixing color
  4. Optics
    1. What is optics?
    2. Reflection
    3. Refraction
    4. Mirrors
    5. Lenses

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This ThinkQuest Project last updated 7/30/97 by

Stan Seibert, Brett Bennett, and Jur Jang