Index of Refraction of Common Materials (***Includes Awesome Applet!!!):
http://www.ps.missouri.edu/rickspage/refract/refraction.html
Light Test (Good Generalization):
http://www.colorado.edu/physics/phys1010/phys1010_fa05/lectures/class26-11-22.pdf
Geometrical Optics (Ray Tracing); ***Awesome Applet:
http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/ntnujava/viewtopic.php?p=1542&np=1&nt=1146817297
Young's Double Slit Diffraction Experiment:
Thin Film Interference:
http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/PY106/Diffraction.html
http://www.gg.caltech.edu/~zhukov/applets/film/applet.html
Complicated Stuff:
UVA, UVB, and UVC:
http://www.publichealthgreybruce.on.ca/Cancer/Sunsense/UV_Radiation.htm
Rayleigh Scattering (Blue Skies!!!):
Elastic collisions make 0 difference in energy between incident and scattered photons
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/blusky.html
Types of Polarization (Highly Complicated Mathematically):
http://physics.tamuk.edu/~suson/html/4323/polar.html
SCATTERING!!!
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/scattercon.html#c1
Compton Scattering
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/quantum/comptint.html#c1
Raman Scattering
http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/atmos/raman.html#c1
Raman Scattering:
Raman scattering occurs because a molecular vibration can change the
polarizability. The difference in energy between the incident photon and
the Raman scattered photon is equal to the energy of a vibration of the
scattering molecule.
http://www.kosi.com/raman/resources/tutorial/
Skin Cancer:
http://www.sunsmart.com.au/article.asp?ContentID=skin_cancer_and_ultraviolet_ra
Color (Eye perception and Computer Color):
http://www.student.kuleuven.ac.be/~m0216922/CG/color.html
http://habitat.igc.org/faces/cyan-1.html
Sunglasses:
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/sunglass6.htm
http://travel.howstuffworks.com/sunglass1.htm
What makes Glass Transparent:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/question404.htm
Other Questions:
You Pick!:
http://science.howstuffworks.com/light14.htm
Transparent and Opaque:
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00856.htm
UV needs from some Animals: Reptiles and Amphibians:
http://www.reptilesdownunder.com/reptile/enclosure/uvlighting.php
INVISIBILITY:
http://www.physics.usyd.edu.au/cudos//research/plasmon.html http://dukenews.duke.edu/2006/10/cloakdemo.html (MOVIE!!!) http://solomon.as.utexas.edu/magnetar.html
Neg. Index of Refraction:
http://physicsweb.org/articles/world/16/5/3
http://www.ece.duke.edu/~dschurig/papers/thesis.pdf
Blackbody Radiation Answered (Visible vs. Infrared):
http://www.1911encyclopedia.org/Absorption_of_Light
http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/askasci/phy00/phy00405.htm