DIY activities for high school optics.
This is the compilation of activities I have designed to understand key areas in optics.
Before you begin
Concepts
- Law of Reflection
- Pinhole Camera - Ray Path Model
- Origami Pinhole Camera
- Secrets of colorful shadows
- Umbra - Penumbra
- Solar Eclipse
- Ray model for spherical Mirror and lenses
- Law of Reflection and Thick Mirrors
- Image distance in plain mirror
- Multiple images with wrappers
- Infinite images with plain mirror
- Image location with parallax
Curved Mirrors
- Visualize ray paths for curved mirrors
- Simple optics bench for concave mirror
- Concave mirror ray paths with plain mirrors
- Optical Aberration and Parabola
- Magnification equation with ray paths
- Mirror equation visualized
- Focal length of Concave mirror
- Ray path in Periscope
- Total internal reflection
Lenses
- Ray path with Acrylic Lenses
- Focal length of lens with sun rays
- Focal length of convex lens in water
- Diverging Convex lens
- Image formation when lens is partially blocked
- Plastic lens for ray optics
- Portable optics bench
- Raindrop and Rainbow
- Build Prism with Plastic
- Fish bowl lens
- Refractive index of water at home
Simulations
- Simulation for lens and mirrors
- Simulation - High School Optics
- Simulation - Refraction - Assignment
- Simulation - Lens and Mirrors - Assignment
Activities
- A4 Periscope
- Portable Kaleidoscope
- Color mixer with plastic bottles
- Zero Shadow day
- Colorful bands with soap film
- Why light looks dimmer at a distance
- What is power of your reading glasses ?
- Test your peripheral vision
- Find your blind spot
- Make reflecting metal
- Build 3D glasses
- Mix colors with PVC Pipe Batteries
- Simulating blue sky
- Rainbow with flashlight
- 5 Unique ways to watch solar eclipse
Challenges
Earlier work
- Version 1 - Pinhole Camera
- Version 1 - Periscope at home
- Color with layers
- Version 1 - Law of reflection
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