Light FUNdamentals
FUNtastic Science Activities for Kids
Published on 1. October 1996
Book
Paperback/Softback
140 pages
978-0-07-071809-8 (ISBN)
Description
The simple experiments included in this text should entertain children as they demystify the scientific concept of light. While making pinhole glasses, looking through "holes" in their hands, and making a candle appear to burn under water, children learn the basic principles of of light and optics.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Children/juvenile
Interest Age: 8 years
Illustrations
125 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 235 mm
Width: 188 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
276 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-071809-8 (9780070718098)
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Content
Symbols used in this book; experiments with light; looking through a hole in your hand; persistence of vision; transparent; translucent and opaque; reflecting materials; how a mirror works; how a reflection can be reversed; how a mirror can produce distorted images; using mirrors to multiply reflections; reflecting beams of light; measuring the angle of reflection; how to make a periscope; the colour of light; why the sky is blue and sunsets red; determining that light travels in a straight line; how polaroid sunglasses reduce glare; seeing light bend; warm air shadows; light diffraction; the disappearing pencil; the moving coin; dark spots from clear water; homemade projector; focusing lines of light and the inverted image; the water magnifying lens; finding the focal length of a lens; using a magnifying glass to produce an image; lens refraction of a magnifying glass; how a reflecting telescope works; how to build a stroboscope; how fibre optics work; light and the electromagnetic spectrum; solar energy.