Physics Experiments in Your Own Light Box
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780766069596
Table of contents: title: Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Contents; Introduction; Chapter 1: Building a Light Box; Making Light Box Masks; Other Materials You Will Need; Chapter 2: Reflection of Light, Images, and Shadows; The Law of Reflecton; Image in a Plane Mirror; Mirror Images: A Model; Three Images; Making Many Images; A Concave Mirror and Reflection; A Different Kind of Image; More Evidence That Light Travels in Straight Lines; Distance, Light, and Shadows; Brightness: Light Intensity; Chapter 3: Refraction: The Bending of Light; Bend Light with Water; Bend Light with a Convex Lens; A Convex Lens Model; title: A Convex Lens and Focal LengthA Convex Lens: A Better Model; Magnifying with a Convex Lens; The Human Eye: A Model; A Light Box Rainbow; Chapter 4: Light and Color; Mixing Different Colors of Light; Can a Shadow Have Colored Stripes?; Primary Colors and Complementary Colors; Colored Light on Colored Objects; Color Analysis with a Diffraction Grating; Chapter 5: More About Light and Color; Subtracting Colored Light; Scattering Colored Light; What Are Afterimages?; Colored Shadow Mysteries; Appendix: Science Supply Companies; Further Reading; Websites; Index; Back Cover