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 * Concepts || Notes || Homework Problems ||
 * Refraction and Snell's Law || [|Pages 1102 - 1106] ||  ||
 * Thin Lenses ||  ||   ||
 * Light Intensity and Distance ||  ||   ||
 * Optical Absorption ||  ||   ||
 * Diffraction ||  ||   ||
 * The Non-Visible Spectrum ||  ||   ||
 * Prisms, the spectrum, and color versus temperature ||  ||   ||

Labs

1) [|Refraction] 2) [|Lenses] 3) Absorption 4) Light intensity and distance 5) [|Diffraction] 6) The Herschel experiment

Benchmark project

1) How hot is the surface of the Sun?

[|Photo] of different types of optical phenomena. Shot courtesy of Sander Castillo (Class of 2010).