Lab #1 - Geometric Optics

Lab #1 - Light and Optics

The next step is to try and get a handle on more of the behaviors that light can exhibit. To do this, I'm going to ask you to go take a look at the exercises described in Lab #1 at the following link:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1WXTseRsX24tXQcKq03ZqWHXq7IqGIuTt/view

This will take you to a PDF document describing a series of things to try doing what a few different materials that I hope you may be able to scare up in one form or another. If you need help finding some of these, I recommend visiting https://laserclassroom.com and checking out their selection of light sources, lenses, and prisms.

Once you have what you need, try making some of the observations described in the lab exercise to see what light can do in different circumstances. The next post will be about describing what we see, so even if you can't do the exercises on your own, you can keep reading to find out what we learn from playing around with light this way.

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