http://www.ck12.org Chapter 13. Light
CHAPTER
13 Light
Chapter Outline
13.1 Fundamentals of Light
13.2 REFLECTION OFLIGHT
13.3 REFRACTION OFLIGHT
13.4 TOTALINTERNALREFLECTION
13.5 REFERENCES
From 1665 to 1666, Isaac Newton studied sunlight and discovered that it can be broken down into a rainbow of colors
with a prism. Today, we know that the rainbow of colors is a consequence of bending the different wavelengths of
different colors. “White” sunlight is not really white—there is no wavelength of light that is white. Rather, it is a
mixture of many different colors that appears white to our brains after being processed by our eyes and optic nerves.