Hight School Physics - Optics

DIY activities for high school optics. 

This is the compilation of activities I have designed to understand key areas in optics.

Before you begin

1. Learning Progression - Optics
2. Inputs for Optics related activities
3. Slit with everyday things

Concepts

1. Law of Reflection
2. Pinhole Camera - Ray Path Model
3. Origami Pinhole Camera
4. Secrets of colorful shadows
5. Umbra - Penumbra
6. Solar Eclipse
7. Ray model for spherical Mirror and lenses
8. Law of Reflection and Thick Mirrors
9. Image distance in plain mirror
10. Multiple images with wrappers
11. Infinite images with plain mirror
12. Image location with parallax

Curved Mirrors

1. Visualize ray paths for curved mirrors
2. Simple optics bench for concave mirror
3. Concave mirror ray paths with plain mirrors
4. Optical Aberration and Parabola
5. Magnification equation with ray paths
6. Mirror equation visualized
7. Focal length of Concave mirror
8. Ray path in Periscope
9. Total internal reflection

Lenses

1. Ray path with Acrylic Lenses
2. Focal length of lens with sun rays
3. Focal length of convex lens in water
4. Diverging Convex lens
5. Image formation when lens is partially blocked
6. Plastic lens for ray optics
7. Portable optics bench
8. Raindrop and Rainbow
9. Build Prism with Plastic
10. Fish bowl lens
11. Refractive index of water at home

Simulations

1. Simulation for lens and mirrors 
2. Simulation - High School Optics
3. Simulation - Refraction - Assignment
4. Simulation - Lens and Mirrors - Assignment

Activities

1. A4 Periscope 
2. Portable Kaleidoscope
3. Color mixer with plastic bottles
4. Zero Shadow day 
5. Colorful bands with soap film
6. Why light looks dimmer at a distance
7. What is power of your reading glasses ? 
8. Test your peripheral vision
9. Find your blind spot
10. Make reflecting metal
11. Build 3D glasses
12. Mix colors with PVC Pipe Batteries
13. Simulating blue sky
14. Rainbow with flashlight
15. 5 Unique ways to watch solar eclipse

Challenges

1. Identify spherical mirror

Earlier work

1. Version 1 - Pinhole Camera
2. Version 1 - Periscope at home
3. Color with layers
4. Version 1 - Law of reflection