What is Waves & Optics?
Waves describe patterns that repeat in space and time—from water ripples to sound to light itself. Optics explores light's behavior, from how lenses focus light to why rainbows appear. Together, wave and optics principles explain phenomena you experience daily and enable technologies like microscopes, telescopes, and fiber optics.
In this area, you'll explore wave properties, sound waves, light, optical instruments, and the electromagnetic spectrum. These topics connect mechanics to light and show how waves unify diverse physical phenomena.