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Waves & Optics

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📹Videos(1)

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Double Slit Experiment

Veritasium on quantum waves and optics

beginner🇬🇧

🎓Courses(1)

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Waves and Oscillations

Learn about waves, oscillations, and their applications with Prof. Bhattacharya. Explore wave phenomena and optics in this comprehensive course!

advanced🇬🇧

📚Books(2)

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Vibrations and Waves

Vibrations and Waves - A book resource

intermediate🇬🇧
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Lens

Lens - A book resource

intermediate🇬🇧

🌐Websites(4)

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PhET Interactive Simulations - Waves

Free interactive sims for waves and optics

beginner🇬🇧
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waves.org

Waves.org is an educational resource focused on waves and optics, offering explanations, simulations, and hands-on activities covering light, sound, interference, and diffraction.

intermediate🇬🇧
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ocw.mit.edu/optics

MIT OpenCourseWare’s Optics collection provides free, university-level course materials from MIT on wave and geometric optics and related topics. It includes lecture notes, problem sets, exams, and lab resources from optics courses for self-paced study.

intermediate🇬🇧
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opticsforkids.org

Optics for Kids is a kid-friendly resource about light and optics, offering simple explanations and lots of hands-on activities. It features interactive demos, experiments, worksheets, and visual demonstrations on topics like reflection, refraction, lenses, and color.

intermediate🇬🇧

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