Physics: Principles and Problems

Chapter 18: Refraction and Lenses

Web Links


About Rainbows
This page goes into fine detail about how rainbows are formed. Draw a raindrop and trace the path that light takes in producing a rainbow.
( http://www.unidata.ucar.edu/staff/blynds/rnbw.html )
Galileo and the Telescope
Learn about Galileo and his telescope, how to make one like it, and how to look at the celestial bodies he did. Make a sketch of the telescope described in this web site. Use a real telescope to look at the same astronomical bodies that Galileo looked at.
( http://es.rice.edu/ES/humsoc/Galileo//Student_Work/Astronomy96 )
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