Category: Optics
Optics experiments
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Mixing Colors Experiment
Procedure: What color do you see when you throw at the same time on a white surface: Green and red light Green and blue light Blue and red light Green, blue and red light Explanation: White light consists of radiations corresponding to each color such as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet .…
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Procedure: Draw on a piece of paper a cage and next to it a parrot. Stick the back of the rafts together and rest them on a straw. Spin the straw with your palms and watch the parrot in the cage!! Explanation: Our eyes maintain the impression of an image for 1/10 of a second.…
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Disappearing Glass Experiment
Materials: glass sunflower oil glass rod Procedure: Fill a small glass with sunflower oil. Dip a glass rod into the sunflower oil. Notice that the rod has disappeared! Explanation: Light travels with the same speed in glass and in oil. When the light comes on the rod it will continue its straight spread, without refraction,…
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Reversing Arrow Illusion
Materials: Glass Water Paper pen Procedure: Draw two parallel arrows on a piece of paper. Fill a glass with water halfway through. Place the paper behind the glass in such a way that one arrow is below the water level and the other arrow above it. Look at the arrows through the glass. The arrow…
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