Topic — Behaviour of light with mirrors, lenses and optical instruments.
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- Accommodation of the eye
- Rainbow
- Rainbow and dispersion
- Kepler’s telescope (refractor)
- How the eye works
- Chromatic dispersion
- Worked exercise — Chromatic refractive index
- Worked exercise — Concave mirror
- Problem — Sci-fi physics: refractive index less than one
- Newton’s prism
- The light ray
- Problem — Image with diverging lens
- Problem — Refractive index from velocity
- Intensity and distance from the source
- The camera
- The magnifying glass
- Laws of reflection
- Thin lenses
- Compound microscope
- Umbra and penumbra
- Problem — Critical angle of an optical fibre
- Problem — Young’s fringes
- Problem — Image with converging lens
- Problem — The fish’s strange sky
- Problem — Rays for an object beyond 2f (lens)
- Problem — Rays for a concave mirror with p less than f
- Problem — Apparent depth of a coin
- Four devices, one formula
- Refraction and Snell’s law
- Problem — Double-slit optical challenge
- Spherical mirrors and conjugate points
- Newton’s reflecting telescope