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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N1-01: PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - POINT SOURCE
Demonstrate continuous spectrum. Read More
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N1-03: PRISMATIC SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - WATER PRISM
Demonstrate continuous spectrum using water as the dispersing medium. Read More
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N1-05 SPECTRA - VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE
Demonstrates continuous spectrum
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N1-06: POLYPRISM SPECTRA
Demonstrate continuous spectra with several different types of glass. Read More
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N1-07: VARIATION OF SPECTRUM WITH LAMP INTENSITY
Demonstrate continuous spectrum as the brightness of the source changes Read More
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N1-08: GOETHE'S PUZZLE
Show the view of a slide through a prism and argue about color theory. Read More
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N1-09: COMPLEMENTARY SPECTRUM
Display the spectrum of a "negative" slit. Read More
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N1-11: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - POINT SOURCE
Demonstrate continuous spectrum. Read More
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N1-12: DIFFRACTION SPECTRA - GRATING ON OVERHEAD PROJECTOR
Very simple white light diffraction spectrum. Read More
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N1-13: DIFFRACTION SPECTRUM OF WHITE LIGHT - PORTABLE
Individual observation of white light spectrum. Read More
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N1-14: REFLECTION GRATING - LARGE
Show a spectrum from a small bright source. Read More
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N1-21: COLOR SEPARATION AND RECOMBINATION BY PRISMS
Show how a prism can recombine previously dispersed white light. Read More
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N1-22: OPTICAL BOARD - PRISMS - SEPARATE AND RECOMBINE
Separate white light into its component colors with a prism and use an identical prism to recombine the light. Read More
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N1-23: FINE RESOLUTION OF SPECTRUM USING TWO PRISMS
Increase the dispersion in a white light spectrum by adding a second prism. Read More
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N1-31: SUN DOG - MODEL
Show how a "sun dog" is formed. Read More
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N1-32: ICE CRYSTALS - PAPER MODELS
Illustrate how two types of ice crystals formed high in the atmosphere float downward through the air with preferred orientations. Read More
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N1-41: RAINDROP RAY MODEL
Illustrate formation of a rainbow. Read More
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N1-42: RAINDROP MECHANICAL MODEL
Illustrate rays in formation of a rainbow. Read More
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N1-43: RAINBOW - GLASS BEAD MODEL
Observe an almost complete circular rainbow formed by glass beads. Read More
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N1-44: OPTICAL BOARD - RAINBOW
Demonstrates internal reflection and dispersion of light
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N1-45: RAINBOW - WATER FLASK
Demonstrate a large angle rainbow. Read More
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N1-51: SPECTROMETER - HAND HELD
Demonstrate spectra individually. Read More
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N1-61: REFRACTION OF LIGHT IN DIAMOND
Show how a diamond produces colors from white light. Read More
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