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The mystery of light (Y7-10)

Light – we all know what this is. But do you know that our understanding of light changed considerably over the last 100 years.

This course will explore the fascinating and mysterious properties of light and at the same time provide a beautiful journey through the transformation of science from the early days to the science we know today – with plenty of cool experiments.

  • Did you know that we can use light to measure the thickness of your hair?
  • Did you know that we can measure light wave lengths with a microwave and chocolate (that we can eat after the experiment 😉
  • Did you know that we will do two experiments that earned the original inventors a Nobel price (Michelson and Albert Einstein). How cool is that??

We will learn how the understanding of light changed in the last 200 years and how experiments with light single-handedly paved the way for the modern quantum physics.

This course is best suited for high school students (Year 7-10)

The class outline is:

  • Session 1: Introduction
  • Session 2: Slit experiments with light
  • Session 3: Properties of light waves (colour, wavelength, …)
  • Session 4+5: Some practical diffraction experiments (wavelength, diameter of hair)
  • Session 6+7: Light is weird
  • Session 8: Here comes Einstein
  • Session 9: The photo-electric effect experiment
 The Mystery of Light course will enable students to

  • learn every aspect of light (wavelength, phase)
  • perform numerous scientific experiments (including two that won Nobel prices!) to explore the funny nature of light. (e.g. determine the thickness of a hair)
  • work independently, scientifically and discuss experiment results collaboratively
  • learn about the wonderful history of the knowledge of light over the centuries
  • learn how light single-handedly transformed the view of nature from newtonian physics to quantum physics.

 

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  • Start date
    14-10-2024 0:00
  • End date
    06-12-2024 0:00
  • Course length
    8x Lesson
  • Class duration
    60 Minutes

This course will explore the fascinating and mysterious properties of light and at the same time provide a beautiful journey through the transformation of science from the early days to the science we know today – with plenty of cool experiments.

Did you know that we can use light to measure the thickness of your hair? In our journey we’ll perform plenty of experiments, including two experiments that earned the original inventors a Nobel price (Michelson and Einstein). How cool is that?

We will learn how the understanding of light changed in the last 200 years and how experiments with light single-handedly paved the way for the modern quantum physics.

This course is best suited for high school students (Year 8-10)

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  • Course name
    The mystery of light
  • Location
    Createrspace
    Chelmsford Ave 4
    2230, Cronulla
    NSW
    Australia
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    We are a NSW government approved Creative Kids provider. If you have a voucher that you’d like to use, simply enter the Coupon code CREATIVEKIDS50 and email the coupon to info@createrspace.net.

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  • Every Thursday
    17:00 - 18:00

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