# optics
Optics is the biggest topic in this batch, and it splits naturally into a few families here. Refraction and reflection are covered by Snell's Law — Refraction & TIR, Total Internal Reflection, Optical Fiber & Total Internal Reflection and Laser Labyrinth — Reflection & Refraction, which all trace how light bends at a boundary or bounces endlessly inside a material. Atmospheric effects get their own cluster: Rainbow & Optics, Atmospheric Optics, Rayleigh Scattering — Why the Sky is Blue and Ice Halos & Sun Dogs all explain sky colours and light shows using scattering and refraction in air or ice. Wave-based optics shows up in Diffraction & Interference, the Fabry-Pérot Interferometer and Huygens' Principle, while Holography and Holography Concept explain how interference alone can store a 3D image. Light Polarization, Optical Vortex Beams and Water Caustics round things out with less common but equally visual light behaviours.
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🧪 Simulations (17)
Simulations in this topic include Rainbow & Optics, Atmospheric Optics, Rayleigh Scattering — Why the Sky is Blue, Optical Fiber & Total Internal Reflection, Snell's Law — Refraction & TIR and Diffraction & Interference.
🌈 Facts about this collection
- 17 simulations are tagged optics, the largest of the nine tags in this batch.
- Four simulations — Rainbow & Optics, Atmospheric Optics, Rayleigh Scattering and Ice Halos & Sun Dogs — all explain sky and atmospheric light effects.
- Total Internal Reflection and Optical Fiber & Total Internal Reflection cover the same physical principle, one in the abstract and one applied to fiber-optic cables.
- Holography, Holography Concept, Diffraction & Interference and the Fabry-Pérot Interferometer are shared with the interference tag, since they all rely on overlapping light waves.
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