Wednesday, November 25, 2009

It's All Smoke and Mirrors

One of the first investigations in our study of light was to figure out what happens when light strikes a mirror. We observed that light reflects in predictable ways. There is a "law of reflection" that works with mirrors - light beams reflect off mirrors at the same angle they strike the mirror. We decided to see if teams of scientists could use two mirrors with a flashlight and make the beam of light strike in certain places in our classroom. Here are our young scientists at work...

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