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Diffraction definition for kids how to#
Find out how to make a coin jump from a bottle.Want another cool and magical water experiment? Clear as mud? ( Note: I am not a science teacher and if you would like to correct or add to my explanation in the comments, I welcome it! Update: someone did! Read the comments for more scientific explanation of the refraction phenomena.) The light comes together at the focal point and beyond the focal point the image looks reversed because the light that was on the right is now on the left, and vice versa. In addition, the water acts as a magnifying glass, which bends the light toward the center. Whenever light passes from one medium into another, it refracts. In this case, light traveled from the air, through the front of the glass jar, through the water, through the back of the glass jar, and then back through the air, before hitting the picture. The science behind the water refraction experiment:
Diffraction of light is a phenomenon in which a light wave. It is defined as the bending of waves at the edges of an obstacle or through a slit into the region of geometrical shadow of the obstacle or slit.
It is two pages and includes the colored bars and two arrows. If you wish, you can download and print our printable. You have the option of setting up the science experiment as we did, or doing it right now with the glass of water sitting next to you! Best of all, there is almost no set up, but once I showed it to the kids, they experimented on their own and debated the reasons for the results.
It would fit right in with our DIY science camp series, too. This water refraction science experiment has such a "wow factor" and is so quick and easy I can't believe my kids and I haven't done it before.
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