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The Color of Light

What happens when coloured lights are added. An experiment shows the effects of adding red, green and blue lights. Main site has hundreds of similar useful links with a good search facility.

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http://sln.fi.edu/tfi/activity/physics/op-3.html

When two different-coloured lights shine on the same spot on a white screen, the light reflecting from that spot to your eyes is called an additive mixture because it contains the colours from both ...

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http://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/colored_shadows/index.html

Aurora's Northern Lights

Presentation of pictures, photographs, articles and links related to the Aurora Borealis, or northern lights.

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http://climate.gi.alaska.edu/Curtis/curtis.html

How Solar Yard Lights Work

A brief description of how Solar Yard Lights work. This site is part of Marshall Brain's HowStuffWorks.com. A good, understandable site.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/solar-light.htm

How Christmas Lights Work

A brief description of how Christmas Lights work from HowStuffWorks.com.

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http://www.howstuffworks.com/christmas-lights.htm

Fluorescent Light

Although there are a large number of lighting options, the majority of lighting in homes is done by either incandescent or fluorescent lights. Fluorescent lighting has a considerable advantage in ...

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http://hyperphysics.phy-astr.gsu.edu/hbase/electric/lighting.html#c1

$Refracted Light$

Refracted Light

Light travels at different speeds through different materials. When light slows down or speeds up, it bends in a new direction. This bending of light is called refraction.

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