• Light from Various Objects

  • Some Objects for which we have information that is not from light

  • Newton & Prism

  • PhET Wave Diffraction & Interference (Show interference with water waves and light)

  • Christian Huygens

  • A Really Ingenious Demonstration of Diffraction of Light

  • Examples of Wave Motion:
    • Water Waves
    • Me, playing in the waves on vacation! . . not really
    • PhET Waves on Strings
    • A People Wave at Michigan's Big House - a world record

  • PhET Waves on Strings showing wavelength, etc.

  • An EM Wave; The Electric Field of a comb and the Magnetic Field

  • James Clerk Maxwell and The Electromagnetic Wave

  • PhET: Radiating Charges

  • The Visible Part of the Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • Entire Electromagnetic Spectrum

  • The Transparency of the Earth's Atmosphere

  • Temperature Scales

  • Blackbody Spectra at Various Temperatures

  • Blackbody Spectra and Wien's Law

  • A Poker in a Fire

  • PhET: The Bohr Model of the Hydrogen Atom

  • Spectra of various atoms

  • The Absorption Spectrum of the Sun

  • An Example of an Emission Line Spectrum

  • Figure 5-8 from your Text: Spectral Features

  • The Doppler Effect in sound from a passing train

  • Doppler Effect for a Moving Train and Sound

  • Doppler Effect in light for Stars (load StarMotionDoppler.swf)