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Multiple Reflections

This is the famous "Mirrored Room" at the Knox-Albright Art Gallery. If you look closely, you can see:
-- a table and chair, which are covered with mirrors, like the walls
-- the hood around the camera that was used to take the picture.
To learn more about multiple reflections, visit Multiple Reflections, and also see the simulation Multiple Reflections from Two Plane Mirrors.

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The Photoelectric Effect

Check out the PhET simulation The Photoelectric Effect from the University of Colorado to learn about the photon, and the photoelectric effect in particular. For more, visit The Photoelectric Effect, from Physics 2000.

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Roundup At the Optical Corral

Although this image looks like electron waves in an "atom corral," it's actually a theoretical optical corral--a prediction--with the waves representing quantum states of light. To learn more, see the American Physical Society's Physical Review Focus Roundup At the Optical Corral.

Physics in Action: Seeing Atoms

Visit Physics in Action: Seeing Atoms to find out why we can't see atoms with light, and how the scanning tunneling microscope works. Also, don't miss the images in IBM's STM Gallery.