Re: Physics of optics

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Another fun thing that isn't optic related but would be photographic
related, is to get some printing out paper from Chicago Albumen Works
and play with it in the sunlight to show the basics of positive and
negative images. Depending on the format used for the pinhole cameras,
they could make contact prints that way.

Good luck,
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William

On 8/17/05, Robert W. Schramm <schrammrus@hotmail.com> wrote:
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> Hi Barry,
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> I never taught in high school ---only college, but I did teach a general
> science class for non-science majors. They seemed to enjoy making a simple
> telescope. Started by measuring the focal length of several lenses by using
> an extended light source. Then they made a simple telescope using a long
> focal length lens and a short focal length lens and measured the
> magnification and calculated the magnification. Interesting things come up
> such as: the image is "upside down" (HMMMM why is that?), there is a
> red-blue halo around the image (This happens if you use simple lenses) , and
> you can suggest they look backwards through their telescope and try to
> explain what they see.
>
> Bob Schramm
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> Check out my web page at: http://www.SchrammStudio.com
> ________________________________
> From: Barry Kleider <bkleider@sihope.com>
> Reply-To: alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca
> To: "alt-photo-process-l@skyway.usask.ca"
> <alt-photo-process-l@sask.usask.ca>
> Subject: Physics of optics
> Date: Wed, 17 Aug 2005 08:31:29 -0500
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> Anyone on the list have experience teaching the physics of optics to high
> school students?
>
> I'm looking for some fun activities I can use to show the properties of
> lenses.
>
> Obviously, there's the pinhole camera....
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> And I've got money to buy up a bunch of junkers we can take apart...
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> Other ideas - either specific activities or of places I might investigate?
>
> Barry Kleider
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>

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