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Now, slowly begin to stir the pencil around in the cup. When looking at the cup at
eye level, what do you see?
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Draw your observations of three different things you see in the cup while you stir.
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Magnification Experiments
Using the newspaper clipping, draw your observations and you look at it through:
Your naked eye
Glass bead
Magnifying Glass
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What did you observe? Draw what happened as the water began to fill the bowl.
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Bending Pencil
Straight or bent? What happens when you look at the pencil through the side of the glass? Light play
tricks on your eyes. The pencil looks bent. This is because light travels slower through water than through
air. As the light enters the glass of water it slows down(changes direction) and as it leaves the glass it
speeds up again therefore making the pencil look bent!
Magnification Experiment
When light moves through different mediums, it changes shape. When you look at the newspaper through
the glass or water, the light had to pass from air through the new medium. Looking from above, an object
under this new medium appears larger than it does in air. It's not that the image the light gave our eyes is
bigger. It's that the image is actually closer to our eyes, since the light is not passing straight down, but is
instead bending relative to the water's surface. Light passing straight down would be perpendicular to the
water's surface, like the vertical line on the letter T. A closer image looks bigger--the underwater or
under-glass object is magnified.
Turning Arrow
Just as with the pencil bending, the light is playing tricks on your eyes. The arrow looks as though it has
turned because the light is passing twice through the different mediums (air to glass back to air back to
glass to air to your eye). This is because light travels slower through water than through air. As the light
enters the glass of water it slows down(changes direction) and as it leaves the glass it speeds up again
therefore making the arrow look as though it has turned.
S.Moorman
(Teaching
http://teachinginroom6.blogspot.com
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Room
6),
2012