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written by Tom Henderson
These multimedia animations help users gain an understanding of reflection and refraction principles.  Text explanations and ray diagrams accompany the animations to offer comprehensive background information on geometrical optics in a beginning tutorial format for first-year physics students.  This resource is part of a larger online collection, The Physics Classroom.

Please note that this resource requires Flash.
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Optics
- Geometrical Optics
- High School
- Collection
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Curriculum support
= Tutorial
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- Educators
- Learners
- application/flash
- image/gif
- text/html
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Keywords:
Law of Reflection, geometrical optics, lenses, mirrors, optics, optics animations, reflection, refraction
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Metadata instance created December 12, 2006 by Caroline Hall
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August 3, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
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December 20, 2004
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T. Henderson, (1996), WWW Document, (https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/optics).
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T. Henderson, Multimedia Physics Studio: Ray Optics (1996), <https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/optics>.
APA Format
Henderson, T. (2004, December 20). Multimedia Physics Studio: Ray Optics. Retrieved April 20, 2024, from https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/optics
Chicago Format
Henderson, Tom. Multimedia Physics Studio: Ray Optics. December 20, 2004. https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/optics (accessed 20 April 2024).
MLA Format
Henderson, Tom. Multimedia Physics Studio: Ray Optics. 1996. 20 Dec. 2004. 20 Apr. 2024 <https://www.physicsclassroom.com/mmedia/optics>.
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@misc{ Author = "Tom Henderson", Title = {Multimedia Physics Studio: Ray Optics}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {20 April 2024}, Month = {December 20, 2004}, Year = {1996} }
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