The Nature of Light
Resources
- General
- Lightwave: Light Education Page. University of Southampton.
- What is the speed of dark? Vsauce. YouTube (2014).
- Color
- See the resources page in the section on color in this book.
- Galileo
- Discorsi e dimostrazioni matematiche intorno a due nuove scienze. Galileo Galilei (1638).
- Dialogues Concerning Two New Sciences. Galileo Galilei. Translated from the Italian and Latin into English by Henry Crew and Alfonso de Salvio. New York: Macmillan (1914).
- 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. Vol. 90 (1800): 293–326.
- 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. (1676): 223–236.
- Light May Have Slowed Down. John Cho. New Scientist (2001).
- Speed of Light. Michael Fowler. University of Virginia
- Why is c the symbol for the speed of light? The Original Usenet Physics FAQ.
- Data and Story Library (DASL). Carnegie Mellon University.
- Ultraviolet
- Sunglass Blues. Nigel Bunce & Jim Hunt. The Science Corner. No. 154 (1987).
- Video on demand
- Brady Haran
- Speed of Light. Sixty Symbols. YouTube (2009). The little "c" representing the speed of light is perhaps the most famous symbol in physics and astronomy.
- The Mechanical Universe and Beyond (1985)
- Optics. Many properties of light are properties of waves, including reflection, refraction, and diffraction.
- Physics for the 21st century (2010)
- Brady Haran