Resources

• general
  • Lightwave: Light Education Page, University of Southampton
• color
  • See the resources page in the section on color in this book.
• laser ranging
  • Apollo 11 Laser Ranging Retroreflector Experiment, Lunar and Planetary Institute
  • International Laser Ranging Service, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
  • McDonald Laser Ranging Station, University of Texas McDonald Observatory
• infrared
  • Experiments on the Solar, and on the Terrestrial Rays that Occasion Heat; With a Comparative View of the Laws to Which Light and Heat, or Rather the Rays Which Occasion Them, are Subject, in Order to Determine Whether They are the Same, or Different. Part I. By William Herschel, LL. D. F. R. S. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society. Vol. 90 (1800): 293-326. doi: 10.1098/rstl.1800.0016.
• speed of light
  • Data and Story Library (DASL), Carnegie Mellon University
    • Estimating the Speed of Light Story and Speed of Light Datafile, Simon Newcomb
    • Speed of Light Story and Michelson Datafile, A. A. Michelson, 1879
  • Démonstration touchant le mouvement de la lumière, Ole Rømer, Journal des Sçavans. Lundi 7 Décembre 1676: 223-236 [Club Astro Centrale Paris].
  • Light May Have Slowed Down, New Scientist, 15 August 2001
  • Speed of Light, University of Virginia
• ultraviolet
  • Sunglass Blues, Nigel Bunce & Jim Hunt, University of Guelph
• video on demand
  • The Mechanical Universe and Beyond
    • Optics, Many properties of light are properties of waves, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction.