Table of Contents: Topics Covered


Topics, Readings, and Activities in the Course Readings The Path of Light The Straight and Narrow The World Through a Hole Photography with a Pinhole Camera Back to Basics Constructing the camera Shadow catching Additional Help The Reflection of Light All Things Reflected All Things Equal The Refraction of Light Changing the Speed of Light Waves The Refraction of Light II The Refractive Index Total Internal Reflection Chromatic Aberration Lenses and Geometrical Optics Part I The Focal Length, or Frying an Ant on the Sidewalk Part II Real vs. Virtual, or What Does the Ant See? The mirror tells all Part III Ray Tracing, or Where Should the Ant Move? Fresnel Lenses Power of Ten Color Color and Light Light: Photons and Waves The Eye and Color Sensation Sources of Light Composition of Light Lasers Lasers Holograms Rainbows Part I Through the Looking Glass... Part II The Pot of Gold Part III Somewhere...Over the Rainbow The Antisolar Point Part IV Gravity's Rainbow Rainbows in 3D Secondary Rainbows Light Inside Rainbows Blue Skies and White Clouds Reflection and Scattering Blue Sky White Clouds Beer Foam and Salt Piles Color, Thin Films, and Interference Optical Spectroscopy & Neon Lights Light and Electrons Optical Light Emission Optical Spectroscopy Neon Lights Polarized Light Visible/X-Rays/UV/IR Visible Light and X-Rays Mechanism for the Absorption of Light Infrared and Ultraviolet Light Silicon -- a Material Transparent to Infrared Absorption of Light Pigment Response in the Infrared Fluorescence with Ultraviolet Light X-Radiography X-Rays: Earth, Moon, and Mars X-ray Fluorescence (XRF) Electron Microprobe (e-m probe) Particle-induced X-ray Emission (PIXE) Sample Analysis: Elements and Composition Remote Sensing The Photoelectric Effect Electrons in Atoms The Electron Electrons in Atoms Photons and Electrons Energies of Light: Optical Spectra X-ray Energies Optical & Electron Microscopy Optical Microscopy The simple microscope Compound Microscope Optical vs. Electron Microscopy Electron Microscopy General Design Image Formation in the TEM Image Formation in the SEM Biological Specimens Materials and Inorganic Specimens Scanning Probe Microscopy Activities Pinhole Viewer Mirrors Lenses Fresnel Lenses Measurements & Estimates Prisms & the Spectrum Seeing Rainbows The Blue Sky Bubbles and Oil Slicks Color and Polarized Light Electrons in Atoms X-Rays, UV, and IR Ion Beam Analysis using PIXE Scanning Probe Microscopy Top of the Page Page authored by the ACEPT W³ Group Department of Physics and Astronomy, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-1504 Copyright © 1995-2000 Arizona Board of Regents. All rights reserved.

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