Chapter 15 (11 ) – Light

Activity 11.11- Splitting Sunlight with a Prism – This activity provides a hands-on way to understand the nature of white light and the phenomenon of dispersion. It’s a fundamental concept in optics and helps students appreciate the complexity and beauty of light.

Activity 11.10: Forming Images with a Convex Lens- This activity is a practical demonstration of the principles of optics, particularly how lenses refract light to form images. It helps students understand the versatile nature of image formation through convex lenses.

Activity 11.9- Focusing Sunlight with a Convex Lens- This activity provides hands-on experience in understanding the properties of convex lenses and how they can focus light. It is a fundamental concept in optics, showcasing the behaviour of light through different mediums.

Activity 11.7- Forming Images with a Concave Mirror- This activity helps students understand the versatile nature of image formation in concave mirrors, demonstrating the basic principles of optics in a practical, hands-on manner.

Activity 11.6- Focusing Sunlight with a Concave Mirror- This activity provides a hands-on experience for students to understand how real images are formed by concave mirrors. It also emphasises the importance of safety while handling reflective surfaces under sunlight.

Activity 11.5- Exploring Images in a Spoon- This activity is a fun and practical way for students to learn about the properties of curved mirrors. By using an everyday object like a spoon, it demonstrates complex concepts of optics in an easy-to-understand manner.

Activity 11.4- Observing Lateral Inversion in a Plane Mirror – This activity helps students understand the concept of lateral inversion in plane mirrors, a fascinating aspect of optics. It provides a clear demonstration of how images are formed in mirrors and how our perception interacts with these reflections.

Activity 11.3- Measuring Distance with a Chessboard and Mirror – This activity helps students understand a fundamental aspect of light behaviour with plane mirrors, enhancing their grasp of basic optics principles. It provides a clear, hands-on way to visualise and quantify the relationship between an object and its image in a mirror.

Activity 11.2- Observing a Candle Flame in a Plane Mirror- This activity helps students understand basic principles of light reflection in mirrors, particularly how images are formed and the characteristics of these images. It’s a foundational concept in optics, a branch of physics that studies the behaviour of light.

Activity 11.1- Observing Reflection of Light -This activity helps students understand the fundamental behaviour of light upon encountering reflective surfaces, a concept crucial in the study of optics and physics.