Optics
From this page you can view demos for Optics classes.
This page contains all the Optics demos. To navigate to a specific category of these demos, use the menu on the left. To view a demo, click on either the image or the number/name.
| Number/Name | Image | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 6A02.15 - Silhouette Shadows |  | Demonstrates an umbra and penumbra using both point and extended sources. |
| 6A02.35 - Laser and Chalk Dust |  | This demo shows the linear nature of a laser beam by clapping a blackboard eraser near it ... |
| 6A10.10 - Blackboard optics - plane mirror |  | This demonstration uses the plane mirror from the blackboard optics set to show how light reflects off a plane mirror. |
| 6A10.15 - Laser and Flat Mirror |  | This demonstration shows that the angle of incidence is equal to the angle of reflection. |
| 6A10.20 - Diffuse vs Specular Reflection |  | This demonstration illustrates the difference between Diffuse and Specular reflection. |
| 6A10.30 - Corner Cube |  | Shows how 3 mirror retroreflectors work. |
| 6A10.42 - Kaleidoscope |  | This demo uses three large mirrors which serve to model a kaleidoscope. |
| 6A20.10 - Blackboard optics - curved mirrors |  | Using the convex and concave mirrors in the blackboard optics set, you can show how light is ... |
| 6A20.30 - Light Bulb Illusion |  | A concave mirror is used to project a real image of a light bulb onto an empty socket ... |
| 6A20.35 - Optical Mirage (bug mirror) |  | This mirage uses two concave mirrors to project an image of the bug in the opening. |
| 6A20.45 - Large convex and concave mirrors |  | This demonstration illustrates the images formed by convex and concave mirrors. |
| 6A20.60 - Energy at the focal point (ignite gun cotton) |  | This demonstration visually shows that a mirror can focus Infrared waves at the focal point. |
| 6A40.30b - Disappearing Beaker |  | This demonstration shows that an object with the same index of refraction as a liquid will ... |
| 6A40.70 - Beer Mug Refraction |  | This demonstrates refraction at an air/water surface. Reveals the tricks of bartenders. |
| 6A42.10 - Blackboard optics - refraction | Using the plastic cubes in the blackboard optics set, you can show how ... | |
| 6A42.20 - Refraction Tank and Laser |  | This demonstration shows what happens to laser light when it encounters an air-water surface. |
| 6A42.45 - Stick in Water |  | This demonstration shows the refraction of light from water to air. ... |
| 6A44.10 - Blackboard Optics - Total Internal Reflection | Using the blackboard optics set, you can show the effects of total internal ... | |
| 6A44.20 - Critical Angle |  | With a small tank of water, you can use a laser beam to show the critical angle. |
| 6A44.40 - Laser and Fiber Optics |  | These fiber optic devices show how we can exploit total internal reflection to transfer light across... |
| 6A44.45 - Laser Waterfall |  | This demonstration shows total internal reflection through a stream of water. |
| 6A60.10 - Blackboard optics - lenses |  | This demonstration shows how a concave and convex lens works. |
| 6A60.30 - Projected Filament with Lens |  | This demo projects the filament of a light bulb onto the screen using a plano convex lens. |
| 6A60.31 - Projected Arrow with Lens |  | This demonstration uses an optical bench with two arrows as the light source ... |
| 6A61.20 - Pinhole Camera |  | This demonstration (often referred to as the reverse pinhole camera) uses a light bulb inside ... |
| 6A65.70 - Frensel lens |  | This is a very big frensel lens. We also have two small frensel lenses. |
| 6A70.31 - Cameras |  | We have several various cameras, including digital, instant polaroid, and an old film camera to be used as a prop. |
| 6B10.30 - Paraffin block photometer |  | This device can be used as a light intensity meter. You can use this to compare the intensity of ... |
| 6B30.10 - Radiometer |  | This is a small radiometer. |
| 6B40.10 - Light on a Variac (Black body radiation) |  | Use to show that radiated color changes with temperature. |
| 6C10.10 -Single Slit and Laser |  | This demonstration shows the diffraction pattern of laser light passing through a single slit. |
| 6C10.15 - Adjustable Slit and Laser |  | Using a variable width slit, you can show what happens to the diffraction pattern when the slit size is varied. |
| 6C20.10 - Laser and Diffraction (Poisson's Bright Spot) |  | This demo shows that laser light can diffract around an object such as a razor blade or pin head. |
| 6C20.15 - Razor Blade Diffraction |  | |
| 6C20.20 - Thin Wire Diffraction (strand of hair) |  | A narrow opaque object will create a diffraction pattern that may be used to measure the width of ... |
| 6D10.10 - Double Slit and Laser |  | This demonstration shows the double slit interference pattern for laser light ... |
| 6D20.10 - Multiple Slits and Laser |  | This demonstration uses a slide with varing number of slits (between 2 and 5) ... |
| 6D20.15 - Diffraction Gratings and Laser |  | This demonstration shows what happens to laser light that passes through a diffraction grating. |
| 6D20.32 - Compact Disk Diffraction and Laser |  | Demonstrate that a Compact disk can act as a diffraction grating. |
| 6D20.50 - Crossed Gratings and Laser |  | Show the pattern of a crossed grating using laser light. |
| 6D30.10 - Newtons Rings |  | This shows interference patterns from a thin air gap between glass. The knobs on the side ... |
| 6D30.20 - Thin Film interference (soap film) |  | This demonstration shows the interference effects of thin films. If the film survies to a point ... |
| 6F10.10 - Addition of Primary Colors |  | This demonstration shows the addition of the primary colors (red, green, and blue). |
| 6F10.20 - Color Filters |  | These filters can be used to show the addition and subtraction of colors. |
| 6F10.55 - Band Absorption Spectra |  | This demonstration shows how some materials absorb certain wavelengths of light.... |
| 6F30.10 - Dispersion curve of a prism (chromatic dispersion) |  | Using a focused white light souce and a prism, a visible light spectrum is projected. |
| 6F40.10 - Blue Sky Red Sunset |  | This demonstration illustrates the effects of light scattering in water (similar to the atmosphere). |
| 6H10.10 - Polaroids on the Overhead |  | This demonstration shows students what happens to the light intensity when one ... |
| 6H35.50 - Stress Plastics (birefringence) |  | This demonstrates the stress pattern in diffrent plastic shapes using polarized light (example of birefringence). |
| 6H50.10 - Polarization by Scattering (using blue sky red sunset demo) |  | This demonstration shows that scattering of unpolarized white light becomes polarized. |
| 6J12.10 - Stereograms |  | These are three stereogram books with stereographic glasses. One book is of rocks, and... |
| 6J12.11 - Kids Stereogram |  | This is a kids stereogram with matching sesame street disk. |
| 6Q10.10 - Holograms |  | This demonstration shows students what a Hologram is and how it works. |