EXPERIMENT 1:
What is refraction?Fill a transparent glass with water. Place a pencil in it. Draw what you see.
ROY G. BIV'S SOLAR RAINBOW
EXPERIMENT 1:
What is refraction?
Fill a transparent glass with water. Place a pencil in
it. Draw what you see.
EXPERIMENT 2: Separating The Wavelengths of White
Light
Take a white piece of construction paper and fold it in half.
Stand it up like an open greeting card. Shine a flashlight through
a prism so that a rainbow like spectrum of color is projected
on the white piece of paper.
Draw and label what you see.
Repeat the experiment with black, red, and green pieces of
construction paper.
1. Does black reflect or absorb the colors?_________________________________
2. Which colors are reflected by the red backdrop?___________________________
3. Which colors are absorbed by the red backdrop?__________________________
4. Which colors are reflected by the green backdrop?_________________________
5. Which colors are absorbed by the green backdrop?________________________
6. Do different wavelengths of light interact differently with
different kinds of matter?__
7. How does light travel?_______________________________________________
8. Do you think energy waves from the sun interact with gases
in the atmosphere?___
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