Sensing the Invisible: The Herschel Experiment
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- Aug 3 2010 12:40 PM
MaryRose Lovgren
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In this lesson, from Science NetLinks, students find out that there is radiation other than visible light being emitted from the sun. They reproduce a version of William Herschel's 1800 experiment that discovered the existence of infrared radiation. This involves creating a device in which sunlight passes through a prism and produces a spectrum of light on the bottom of a cardboard box.
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Grade: 6 to 8
Topics: Science, Physics