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All Experiments
All Experiments
Listed below are all the experiments for this topic.
- Absorption lines in the spectrum of sunlight
- Absorption spectrum of sodium
- Additive colour mixing
- A simple spectrum
- Beyond the visible spectrum
- Brandy tears
- Comparing short cameras and long cameras
- Compound microscope
- Curved ray of light
- Cylindrical mirror, aberration and caustic curve
- Demonstration spectrum
- Depth of field for a camera
- Experiments with a fan of rays
- Experiments with a single ray
- Further refraction demonstrations
- Herschel’s infra-red experiment
- How does the world look without glasses?
- How images form
- Image formation with a lens
- Investigating the spectrum with an electronic detector
- Law of reflection
- Law of refraction
- Making a photo to take home
- Making a telescope
- Model eye demonstration with flask
- Model eye with a goldfish bowl
- Model of a camera
- Model of a microscope using a car lamp
- Model of a microscope with ray streaks
- Model of a telescope with ray streaks
- Optical illusion with concave mirror
- Pinhole camera and lens camera
- Ray model of telescope with field lens
- Ray of light in water
- Real and virtual images in a smoke box
- Reflecting a ray of light and a rubber ball
- Refraction in a tank of water
- Retinal shadow
- Retinal shadow using a model eye
- Shadows and rays on a screen
- Simple spectrum of sunlight
- Spectra
- Spectra formed by gratings
- Telescope magnification
- The image of a candle in a plane mirror
- The lens formula
- The magnifying glass: qualitative
- The magnifying glass: quantitative
- The range of accommodation of the eye
- The virtual image in a plane mirror
- Understanding colours
- Using the telescope like an astronomer
- Variable focus eye
Updated 11 Apr 2006
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