Geometrical Optics
L6-35: CHROMATIC ABERRATION - POINT SOURCE AND 20 CM LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show the effect of chromatic aberration in a lens.
L6-34: OPTICAL BOARD - CHROMATIC ABERRATION IN LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show chromatic aberration in a convex lens.
L6-33: STRING MODEL - CHROMATIC ABERRATION
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Ilustrate rays for chromatic aberration.
L6-32: OPTICAL BOARD - SPHERICAL ABERRATION IN LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Demonstrate spherical aberration using rays.
L6-31: STRING MODEL - SPHERICAL ABERRATION
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Illustrate light rays for spherical aberration.
L6-22: OPTICAL BOARD - RAY DIAGRAM - VIRTUAL IMAGE NEG LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Use the three principal rays to locate the virtual image of a diverging lens.
L6-21: OPTICAL BOARD - DIVERGING SPHERICAL LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Determine the focal point of a concave lens.
L6-14: IMAGE OF CONVEX LENS - WITH AND WITHOUT BAFFLE
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Encourage thought regarding how an image is formed.
L6-13: OPTICAL BOARD - PARALLEL RAY FOCUS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Demonstrate focusing of parallel rays in a counterintuitive way.
L6-11: OPTICAL BOARD - DEPTH OF FIELD
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Illustrate the idea of depth of field of a (camera) lens, and to locate the near and far points.
L6-09: REAL IMAGE OF CONVERGING LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show the systematics of real image formation by a converging lens.
L6-08: REAL IMAGE OF CONVERGING LENS - LIGHT BULB
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show the real image of a converging lens.
L6-07: MICROWAVES - LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Demonstrate that a paraffin lens can focus microwaves.
L6-06: MULTIPLE PINHOLES AND LENS RECOMBINATION
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Demonstrate that a lens focuses light.
L6-05: OPTICAL BOARD - RAY DIAGRAM - VIRTUAL IMAGE POS LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Use principal rays to locate a virtual image produced by a convex lens.
L6-04: OPTICAL BOARD - RAY DIAGRAM - REAL IMAGE POS LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Use principal rays to locate a real image produced by a convex lens.
L6-03: OPTICAL BOARD - HYPERBOLIC LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show focusing of a hyperbolic lens.
L6-01: OPTICAL BOARD - CONVERGING SPHERICAL LENS
Category: L6 Lenses
Purpose:
Show focusing of a spherical (cylindrical) convex lens.
L5-34: FRUSTRATED TOTAL INTERNAL REFLECTION - MICROWAVES
Category: L5 Total Internal Reflection
Purpose:
Demonstrate frustrated total internal reflection using microwaves.
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L1-01: ARC LAMP - PROJECTION OF ARC
Direct projection of side view of the arc of a carbon arc lamp Read More
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L1-02: TUNGSTEN-HALOGEN LAMP - PROJECTION OF LAMP
View an operating tungsten-halogen lamp Read More
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L1-03: LIGHT BULB WITHOUT VACUUM
Show what happens to a lighted filament in the presence of air Read More
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L1-04: POINT SOURCE - FLASHLIGHT BULB
Demonstrate optical characteristics of a "point source" Read More
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L1-05: PERSISTENCE OF A FILAMENT
Demonstrate that high-frequency AC looks like DC Read More
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L1-11: INVERSE SQUARE LAW - LIGHT BULB AND RADIOMETER
Demonstrate that light obeys the inverse square law Read More
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L1-12: INVERSE SQUARE LAW - OVERHEAD PROJECTOR AND TWO-METER STICK
Show that light obeys the inverse square law Read More
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L1-21: PINHOLE IMAGE - GROUND GLASS SCREEN
View individually a pinhole "image" Read More
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L1-22: OPTICAL BOARD - PINHOLE CAMERA
Demonstrate how a pinhole "image" is formed Read More
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L1-23: PINHOLE VIDEO CAMERA
Produce video images with a pinhole camera Read More
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L1-31: LASER LIGHT CAVITY
Demonstrate how a laser cavity works Read More
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L1-32: VISIBLE LASER
Show what the inside of a laser looks like, and to show that the laser removes lots of spectral components… Read More
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L1-33: LASER BEAM EXPANDERS
Expand a laser beam to uniform 10mm or 40mm diameter Read More
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