Optics

Due to Culture Day landing on a Monday there was no optics video. Everything landed on Wednesday.


This term I say at the end of the table and pointed the laser to the east. This actually worked well.

The terrarium was an excellent demonstrator of total internal refection and led naturally to fiber optics. I need a fiber optic toy.

This approach worked better because there was no blocking mirror desk.

I moved through rainbows and convex lenses  wrapping at 12:51

The Thursday laboratory replicated the equipment of the prior term, with an additional graduated cylinder to provide more data above the 1000 ml beakers value.

The board layout took 30 minutes from 8:00 to 8:30. With 8:00 attendance at three the slow start allowed more to arrive ahead of demonstrating the measurements.

In a break from past practice, the full lab through to the lab report was on the board from 8:30.

Melsihna and Vanette adapting the laboratory rig to better measure the apparent depth.

Ensalyn recording data while Aiko measures the object depth

Susan and Brendon measuring the image distance behind a mirror

Arleen and Angeline determining the location of the image behind the mirror 

Valerina records data

Aimee works out the image distance while Sonya steadies the mirror 

Sonya and Susan determining the apparent depth of the image of penny on the bottom of the graduated cylinder.

Aimee recording data, Valerina finding the apparent depth

Brendon measures the image distance which Susan had located

Yasmine records data while Esmirelda measures the actual depth of the penny 

Denny-Ray explaining the apparent depth experiment to Jefferson and Kimberly 

Cathleen measures the apparent depth which Ternajen has determined

Kimberly and Jefferson work on the index of reflection 

Silane points out the water line, Matuita points to the image depth location, Ioanis measures the apparent depth 

Ioanis determines the actual object depth 

John and Gaynor arriving after clean up had begun. The 08:00 section had worked until well after 10:00, over two hours. The 11:00 section set what seems like a section record, completing the laboratory in 50 minutes flat. 

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