This set of pages contains all the light and optics work that we will cover between now and the end of term.
Printing is a bit of a pain (see below) if you'd rather you can just download a zip file with all the pages in and use the Windows XP printing wizard or another program to print them all out. ZIP FILE
There
are 10 Pages of Light and Optics notes here.
They are all all based on a slightly scaled down JPG image.
You can use the table below or just go to the first
page and work your way through them
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I will provide you with paper copies if you want, just ask.
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| Reflection, curved mirrors and why mirrors aren't perfect. | |
| Refraction and Snell's law | |
| More refraction, total internal reflection and the critical angle | |
| Total internal reflection and applications | |
| Lenses; Convex and concave. The convex lens equation | |
| The Refracting Telescope | |
| The reflecting telescope | |
| Long and short sight and how to correct it | |
| Refraction gets a bit more complicated- Dispersion and Rainbows | |
| Aberration; Spherical and chromatic |