SNC2D Optics

Grade 10 Optics Unit Outline 2009-2010 (draft)

(page numbers from Science Perspectives 10, Nelson)
Lesson 1 Topic, Concepts Powerpoint: Introduction to Optics What is light and how is it produced? The Wave Model of Light Short video: Atomic spectra Activity: spectroscopes Powerpoint and demo: Sources of Light The Electromagnetic Spectrum, Math Review Solving equations and unit conversions Measurement, uncertainty, and significant digits Activity: measurement Quiz significant digits, solving equations, unit conversions, sources of light The Ray Model of Light Activity: Property of Light rectilinear propagation (i.e. light travels in straight lines) The Ray Model of Light image formation: camera obscura Camera obscura images (powerpoint) and examples Law of Reflection characteristics and position of images for plane mirrors: angle of incidence = angle of reflection Activity: Mirror Images, angle of incidence and reflection (ray boxes and plane mirrors) Question: how much mirror do you need to see your whole body? Characteristics and position of images for curved mirrors Activity: ray diagrams for mirror images Magnification equation Solar cookers and funhouse mirrors Demonstration: Gizmo/java applet Demonstration: floating pig Refraction of light light bends (speed changes) as it passes from 1 medium to another Demonstration straw bent in glass of water Definition of index of refraction, analogy to car traveling from one surface to another; java applet demo Lab: Refraction through prism or water-filled hemisphere (discovering Snells Law) Refraction II Snells Law: problems and examples Critical angle and total internal reflection demonstration: optical Pages 393-399 Handout questions

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waveguides, water waveguide Refraction phenomena demos and powerpoint (disappearing coin demo, mirages, apparent depth, apparent sunset, diamonds) 9 Refraction and Lenses: Types of lenses Activity: ray boxes, convex and concave lenses Investigation: characteristics of images formed by converging lenses (metre stick optical table), magnification, object and image distance, focal length Characteristics and positions of images from the Thin Lens Equation (from the investigation), and ray diagrams; Gizmos or other applet demos Thin Lens Equation problems Properties of mirrors and lenses used in optical instruments (telescopes, microscopes, etc., photography depth of field, fish eye lenses, optical fibres for communications and for medicine); Activity design an optical device or a security system Human perception of light, parts of the eye Vision and colour Activity: vision tests; parts of the eye - how do we see things? Optical illusions Review 454-457, 482-489 448-454

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