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Optics
in one of the most interesting and
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challenging
areas of physics to teach.
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It
relates directly to everyday experience.
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It
relates to topics of much interest to many students
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such
as photography, movies, astronomy, and biology.
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Its
a class of phenomena where physics
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has
developed a number of different models
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of
increasing sophistication rays, waves, photons.
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Its
an area where it has been demonstrated
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that
students are strongly resistant to learning
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scientific
reasoning.
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