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  • Comparing the Human Eye and a Camera
    A discriptive and animated explaination of he comparison of image formation by human eye and a photographic camera.
    http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester2/c29_eye.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Differences between lenses and mirrors
    This applet simulates and explains the differences between the ray diagrams and image formation by mirrors and lenses.
    http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester2/c28_lenses.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Human Vision
    The human vision interactive Java tutorial explores what happens in the human eye when an image is focused on the retina. Interactive Java Tutorial ATTENTION Our servers have detected that your web browser does not have the Java Virtual Machine installed or it is not functioning properly. Please install this software in order to view our interactive Java tutorials. Visitors using the Netscape and Microsoft Internet Explorer browsers can download the appropriate software from the websites where the browsers are distributed. Please do not contact us for information about specific URLs where this software can be obtained.
    http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/eyeball/
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Microscope Optical Components
    This interactive java applet simulates and explains the formation of a tiny object by a microscope.
    http://www.micro.magnet.fsu.edu/primer/java/components/twolenssystem/
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Optics Bench
    Simulates the formation of image by a telescope.
    http://www.mtholyoke.edu/~mpeterso/applets/physlets/testopt1.htm
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Prism: Reflection and refraction
    This java applet let you play with a light source and a prism, to study the physics of light. There are reflection and refraction occurs at the interface between two media.
    http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/optics/prism_e.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Rainbow
    This applet shows and explains the physics of the formation of a rainbow.
    http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/Rainbow/rainbow.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Ray Diagrams
    This applet simulates and draws the ray diagrams for converging and diverging thin lenses.
    http://webhw.unca.edu/bennett_phys222/Content/labs/ray/ray_principles.asp
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Reflection and Refraction of Light
    The applet will show the reflected and the refracted ray and calculate the corresponding angles:
    http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/refraction.htm
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Reflection and Refraction of Waves
    This applet is a sort of tutorial which explains the reflection and the refraction of waves by the principle of Huygens.
    http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/huygenspr.htm
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Reflection/Refraction
    This java applet shows the physics behind a beam of light impinging at some angle on the smooth/rough surface.
    http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/light/flashLight.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Refracting Astronomical Telescope
    This Java applet simulates a simple refracting astronomical (inverting) telescope, consisting of two lenses which are called the objective and the eyepiece (ocular).
    http://www.walter-fendt.de/ph14e/refractor.htm
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Spherical Mirrors
    This applet simulates and explains the formation of images by concave and convex mirrors.
    http://physics.bu.edu/~duffy/semester2/c25_spherical.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • The Human Eye
    The applet is a simplified model of the eye in which the front of the eye is a single converging lens and describes its defects.
    http://webphysics.davidson.edu/physlet_resources/dav_optics/Examples/eye_demo.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
  • Thin Lens combinations
    This java applets let you understand the entire range of behavior of a single convex lens or image formed by two lens.
    http://www.phy.ntnu.edu.tw/java/thinLens/thinLens.html
    (Added: Fri Jul 11 2003)
 
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