Formation of Images

Class practical: Comparing the curvature and shape of long and short focus lenses.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Producing a permanent photographic image.

Practical Activity 14-16

Class practical: Constructing a pinhole camera and investigating the action of a lens.

Practical Activity 14-16

A model eye and a sectional drawing of the human eye are useful to show students, and links with the biology department can...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

With a camera, rays of light come straight from each point on a bright filament, brightly lighted face, or whatever the object...

Teaching Guidance 14-16

Each eye is seeing something very different and as your brain tries to make a sensible single image, it combines bits from...

Enrichment Activity 5-11 11-14

When you’re wearing the hat you can only see with one eye at a time. Without your normal, two-eyed, binocular vision you can’t...

Enrichment Activity 5-11 11-14

You'll see the pendulum moving in a circle or ellipse, instead of a straight line. When you put the lens in front of your...

Enrichment Activity 5-11 11-14

When you hold the card close to you and look through the pinhole at some writing on the screen, it should be magnified and...

Enrichment Activity 5-11 11-14

You should see a moving 3D image appear to float within the pyramid. Some light from each image is reflected off of the...

Enrichment Activity 5-11 11-14