Product Summary
The Light, Color, and Optics Kit is a complete laboratory for learning about light, color, and optical technology. Three 50-mm optics snap onto the track and slide easily. The light source makes a perfect illuminated “object” for optics experiments, and the fixed spacing of the colored LEDs makes it easy to observe and measure image properties such as magnification, inversion, and brightness. Use the equipment from this kit to perform light, color, and optics labs found in the Essential Physics 3rd Edition curriculum, and the Essential Physics Lab Manual (EP-6326).
Perform These Experiments
- Magnification of Mirrors and Lenses
- Reflection in a Plane Mirror
- Refraction of Light
- Creating Real and Virtual Images with Lenses
- Image Formation for a Convex Lens
- Build a Microscope and a Telescope
- Phosphorescence
What's Included
- 1x 1.2 m aluminum track
- 3x 50 mm optics mounts
- 1x Rechargeable light source
- 1x AC adapter/charger
- 1x Refraction tank
- 1x Triangular prism
- 1x Phosphorescent plastic
- 1x 50 mm convex lens - 10 cm f.l.
- 1x 50 mm convex lens - 20 cm f.l.
- 1x 50 mm convex lens - 50 cm f.l.
- 1x 50 mm concave lens - 20 cm f.l.
- 1x 50 mm convex mirror - 25 cm f.l.
- 1x 50 mm concave mirror - 25 cm f.l.
- 1x 50 mm screen
- 1x 50 mm diffraction grating
- 1x Eyeglasses
Experiment Library
Perform the following experiments and more with the Light, Color & Optics Kit.
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High School / Physics
How do a microscope and telescope work? The basic microscope and telescope are each a compound optical device that uses two lenses. The object is imaged by the first (or objective) lens; this image is used as the object by the...
High School / Physics
What property of light is required to cause a material to phosphoresce? Glow-in-the-dark plastic may seem like a toy, but it has powerful physics embedded into it! The science behind it is called phosphorescence. A phosphorescent...
High School / Physics
What is the difference between real and virtual images? How can you create real and virtual images with a convex lens?
High School / Physics
How does a convex lens form an image? How do you measure the focal length of a lens? Light travels in straight lines unless an optical device—such as a mirror or lens—diverts its path. A convex lens is used in cameras and...
