Summary
Bill bends and bounces light with lenses, mirrors, and water to show how we steer light to magnify, focus, and see.
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Discussion
Bill bends and bounces light with lenses, mirrors, and water to show how we steer light to magnify, focus, and see..
- Why does a straw look broken in a glass of water?
- How does a lens make things look bigger?
- What does a mirror do to the light that hits it?
Quick work-a-long
Vocabulary: reflect, refract, lens.
Try it: Look at a pencil half in a glass of water and draw what the light appears to do.