Lab 1 Light Rays, Shadows, and Light
Sources
Activity
1: Light Rays, Shadows, and Light Sources
Activity 2: How does the
nature of a shadow depend on the distance between the light source and the
object projecting the shadow?
Activity 3: How does the nature
of a shadow depend on the distance between the object and the shadow?
Activity 4: Square hole -
round shadow - hmmm
Lab 2 Pinhole Viewer Box
Activity
1: Construction of the pinhole camera
Activity 2: Image of the light
bulb
Activity 3: Effect of distance
between the pinhole and the light bulb (object)
Lab 3 Pinhole Viewer Box Continued and
Measuring the Diameter of the Sun
Activity
1: Effect of the distance between the viewing screen and the pinhole on the
image size
Activity 2: Effect of the
diameter of the pinhole on the size, clarity, and brightness of the image
Activity 3: Measuring the
diameter of the sun
Lab 4 Reflection of Light Rays
Activity
1: Tracing reflected light rays from a mirror
Activity 2: Making a laser line
from a laser spot
Activity 3: Verifying the Law of
Reflection
Activity 4: Light Maze
Prediction
Activity 5: Where to put the
mirror
Lab 5 Refraction of Light
Activity
1: The Broken Pencil
Activity 2: Rules of Refraction
Activity 3: Where's my money
Activity 4: Seeing
Multiples
Activity 5: Thick Lenses and
Beam Spreaders
Activity 6: The focusing and
Spreading out of parallel rays of light
Lab 6 Color, Waves, and Dispersion
Activity
1: Observing a Spectrum of Light using a Diffraction Grating
Activity 2: Evaluation of
color light filters
Activity 3: Dispersion of
Sunlight from a Prism
Activity 4: Spectrum of
light from overhead Projector using a slit and diffraction
grating
Activity 5: Spectrum of
subtractive light from overhead projector using an anti-slit and diffraction
grating
Lab 7 Refraction, Ray Tracing, and
Snell's Law
Activity
1: Snell's Law
Activity 2: Model of a Lens
Lab 8 Curved Mirrors, ray Diagrams, and
Simulations
Activity 1: Focal Length of a
Concave Mirror using Parallel Rays - Method I
Activity 2: Focal Length of a
Concave Mirror using Equidistance - Method II
Activity 3: Focal Length of a
Concave Mirror using Graphical Analysis - Method III
Activity 4: Computer Simulation
Illustrating Graphical Analysis
Activity 5: Ray Diagrams for
Concave Mirrors
Lab 9 Lenses, Lens Equation, and
Simulations
Activity
1: Focal length of a convex lens
Activity 2: Size and brightness
of the image from a convex lens
Activity 3: Relationship between
Object Distance and Image Distance for a Convex Lens
Activity 4: Size of the Lens and
Intensity Relationship
Activity 5: The Effect of
Changing the Index of Refraction of the Lens
Lab 10 Using Multiple Lenses
Activity
1: Focal Length of a Concave Lens (Simulation)
Activity 2: Back-to-Back Double
Convex Lens and Plano-Convex Lens
Activity 3: Back-to-Back Double
Convex Lens and Double -Concave Lens
Activity 4: Magnification
Properties of Lenses
Activity 5: Image Formation From
a Convex and Concave Lens
Lab 11 Optical Instruments
Activity
1: A Simple Magnifier
Activity 2: Galilean Telescope
Activity 3: Keplerian Telescope
Lab 12 Polarization
Activity
1: Determine the Axis of Polarization of a Piece of Polaroid
Activity 2: Polarization by
Absorption
Activity 3: Polarization by
Reflection of White Light
Activity 4: Polarization by
Scattering by White Light, Part I
Activity 5: Polarization by
Scattering of Red Laser Light, Part II
Lab 13 Interference
Activity
1: Thin film interference of reflected light from air and glass interfaces
Activity 2: Thin film
interference of reflected light from chemical - water interfaces
Activity 3: Thin film
interference of reflected light from soap bubbles
Lab 14 Diffraction
Activity
1: Diffraction of red laser light from a slit
Activity 2: Diffraction of red
laser light from a single strand of hair
Activity 3: Diffraction and
interference from 2 strands of hair