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School Program Price:
Costs $14.00 per student
Description
A complete light laboratory in a box. Construct a box that captures and focuses images. Use it as a camera obscura...an artist's drawing tool. Or make it into a model of the eye. Then rearrange the elements. Direct a light source on an image inside the box to project the image into a darkened room – recreate one of Leonardo da Vinci’s greatest leaps of invention: a projector.
The Geometric Optics simulation by PhET, interactive, research-based simulations of physical phenomena from the PhET project at the University of Colorado, goes into depth on the principles demonstrated in our Camera Obscura model. For further guidance try the Teacher's Guides listed on the PhET Web Site.