Background Research

PRINCIPLE AND CONCEPT

The principle and/or concept of the experiment it to show the way light can bend while it is going through plastic container. The plastic container is extremely bendable and tear-able, whereas light, itself, cannot tear. But, as the light goes through the plastic that is being bent, the light is following the plastic and goes through it. In this experiment I put water in a litter bottle and i cut a hole in the middle of the bottle, as the water pours out slowly i have to shoot a laser at the opposite side of the bottle and watch as the water "breaks" the light. The light breaks because of what is called refraction.

Refraction is when a laser beam is reflecting the light into a bottle.