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Wednesday, February 11, 2015

12. Last round on lenses: water lenses in outer space

To finish with our tasks related to lenses, I would like to present a 'weird' way to demonstrate some of the propertiers of lenses. 
Astronaut Don Pettit, while on the space station, showed that you only need a drop of water and a lot of creativity to make up lenses which comply with the properties explained in optics textbooks. 




Please, watch Mr Pettit's experiment and complete the activities detailed on the worksheet that will be handed out by your teacher.
You can work in pairs and...enjoy the task!

N.B. Deadline to give in the completed task: Tuesday 17th February.







Sunday, February 8, 2015

11. Defects of vision and lenses

In the following video three different defects of vision are analyzed and their correction explained.

Working in pairs, could you please make a summary of the main traits of each defect and explain its correction through lenses?


Sunday, January 25, 2015

10. Lens Basics

In the following text you are going to be introduced to the main concepts (in English, of course) related to lenses. The goal of the text is not for you to get to know the logic of lenses (you surely know about it!). Its aims is for you to get acquainted to the English terms related to lenses. Please, read it carefully!
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0Bx2zAmhWM8NoRGtMRWd0bWdkYzQ/view?usp=sharing


Once you have read (and understood) the text, here are two tasks which you might carry out with the help of Donald Simanek's web page.

The first task consists in giving answers to the questions listed in this document.

The second task consists in making up a PowerPoint presentation explaining the main concepts of the physics of lenses, giving visual examples whenever possible.

Have a nice time!

Tuesday, January 6, 2015

9. Lighting Basics Tutorial - Three Point Lighting

Here you have a video on lighting: the three-point lighting system.



Please, carefully watch this clip and try to answer the questions listed in this file!