OPTICS

Activity: Propagation of Light – The Ray Model of Light: light travels in straight lines, as rays emitted from a source, application: camera obscura (pinhole cameras)

Propagation of Light (The Ray Model of Light) - notes

Camera Obscura PowerPoint

Video - turning your room into a camera obscura, p. 479

5. Quiz – solving equations, unit conversions, sources of light

Optics crossword and word search for students who finish early

6. Law of Reflection, pp. 480-485, 489-491, video how to measure angles in optics

Introduction to Reflection PowerPoint

Activity: How much mirror do you need? (Try this at home! Requires a handheld mirror and a ruler)

Angle measurement practice

Law of Reflection Homework 2020

Law of Reflection Homework ,Law of Reflection Homework - solutions

Video - Ocean's Twelve Laser Dance

Challenge Problem: the Faberge Egg (Design a laser security system that protects a valuable Faberge egg! Requires a ruler and protractor.)

Video - Physics Girl - What is color? (3:49)

Video - VSauce - What color is a mirror? (5:21)

Gizmo activity

7.Lab: Discovering the Law of Reflection

8. Location and position of virtual images in plane mirrors, Using rays to find images in a mirrors

pp. 489-492

PowerPoint: Using Rays to Find Images in a plane mirror

Using light rays to locate an image 2020 - student

Using light rays to locate an image 2020 - solutions

Assignment - Reflection and Images in a Plane Mirror, - Reflection and Images in a Plane Mirror answers

Interactive Simulation: Image Formation in Plane Mirrors

Video - Physics Girl - Why do mirrors flip horizontally but not vertically?

Warm up Activity TM

9. Refraction of light

Demonstration – straw bent in glass of water, the vanishing penny

pp. 515-519

Introduction to Refraction and Partial Reflection - ppt, student notes

Teacher- Introduction to Refraction and Partial Reflection - solutions

Interactive SImulation: Refraction and Partial Reflection

Video - MinutePhysics - The speed of light in glass (1:41)

Video - Global News - The magic of refraction/invisibility (6:34)

Video - Khan Academy - Refraction and the "broken straw" (4:23)

Video - How Stuff Works - How do one-way mirrors work? (2:50)

10. Lab: Refraction through semicircular prism; angle of incidence, angle of refraction

Lab: Discovering the Index of Refraction

virtual lab: PhET Simulation for On-line Refraction Lab

virtual Refraction Lab - PhET simulation

11. Index of Refraction Equation and Problem Solving

pp. 524-530, 535-539

The Index of Refraction and the Speed of Light Problems

The Index of Refraction and the Speed of Light Problems - solutions

Total Internal Reflection - student

Total Internal Reflection - teacher

Video - Refraction and Invisibility (1:13)

Video - Sick Science - Invisibility (3:09)

Video - Smart Materials - Invisibility (6:10)

Refraction Phenomena and Total Internal Reflection

Refraction Phenomena and Total Internal Reflection - solutions

Video - What is Total Internal Reflection and the Critical Angle? (8:15)

Video - Total Internal Reflection - water in a glass (0:26)

Video - Total Internal Reflection - water pipe (0:23)

Video - How fiber optic cables work (the Engineer Guy, 5:35)

Video - The Invisible Iceberg (Smithsonian, 3:23)

Video - Ship mirage (Fata Morgana) (0:24)

Video - Physics Girl - How to Control Light with Water 10:17

12. Introduction to Lenses:

Types of lenses (converging and diverging), applications of lenses

Terminology of converging lens

Introduction to Lenses - ppt

Video - Light rays and converging and diverging lenses (1:28)

Video - make a converging lens with a sandwich bag (Veritasium, 5:35)

Introduction to Lenses - worksheet and homework questions

Introduction to Lenses homework questions - solutions

Activity: Refraction of rays by converging lenses

Activity - Ray Tracing for Lenses

Activity - Ray Tracing for Lenses - solutions

pp. 451-452

Jem Melts Rock Using Sunshine - YouTube video 1:43

13. Images produced by Lenses: Ray Diagrams

Video - Formation of real images with converging lenses (1:00)

Video - Drawing Ray Diagrams: Parallel, Centre and Focal Rays (2:40)

Drawing Ray Diagrams PowerPoint

Drawing Ray Diagrams worksheet

Drawing Ray Diagrams worksheet - solutions

Optics crossword review

Investigation: characteristics of images formed by converging lenses (metre stick optical table), magnification, object and image distance, focal length

Discovering the Thin Lens Equation and Magnification Equation

pp. 554-556

14. Thin Lens Equation problems

Solving problems using the Thin Lens Equation and Magnification Equation

Lens system simulation

The Thin Lens Equation problems

The Thin Lens Equation problems - solutions

Video - Ray Diagrams and the Thin Lens Equation (3:40)

Video - How do glasses help us see? (TED-ED, 4:23)

Simulation - Correcting Eye Defects

Video - Laser eye surgery animation

pp. 562-564, Handout questions

15. Review

Optics Unit Test Outline and Review Questions

Optics Unit Test Outline Review Solutions

16. Unit Test

Enrichment:

Activity - Creating 3D anaglyph images (requires iPad or iPhone, red and cyan 3D glasses)

video - NASA 3D tour of ISS (NASA's Marshall Center, 3:13)

Review Quizzes:

Review Quiz - Scientific Notation and Unit Conversions

Review Quiz - Sources of Light

Review Quiz - Reflection

Review Quiz - Refraction

Review Quiz - Lenses, Ray Diagrams, Thin Lens Equation

Formative Assessment:

- Worksheets, activities, law of reflection lab, refraction lab, ray lab, demos

Summative Assessment:

Lab – Law of Reflection
Lab - Refraction of light
Quiz #1- scientific notation, unit conversions, solving equations) and Sources of Light
Quick Quiz #2 – Law of Reflection, Image in a mirror
Quick Quiz #3– Index of Refraction calculations
Assignment or Quick Quiz #4 – Ray diagrams for images formed by thin lenses
Unit Test
the Faberge Egg challenge