This educational transfer plan is a high school physics laboratory suitable for students with knowledge of right angle trigonometry.
Fifth graders are curious about the world around them and use a lot of social media. Do students understand what their brain can do and how the use of social media or too much computer time can impact their brains and bodies?
Students growing up in today have little exposure to hands-on technologies that can help them to experientially understand the workings of the eye; yet, the eyes and an understanding of light (and how it moves) are essential to understanding many of today’s technologies.
Students love cell phones and especially cell phone cameras. But today’s imaging technology provides incredible possibilities of observation. My fellowship at Lockheed Martin’s Optical Payload Center of Excellence provided the window to view an entirely unimagined universe of observation.
EXtreme Environment Systems Lab (XLab) develops systems for operation within extreme harsh environments. Researchers in the XLab investigate the synthesis of temperature tolerant, chemically resistant and radiation-hardened wide bandgap semiconductor thin films and nanostructures.
This engineering design challenge will allow students to build their own structurally stable pocket microscope using basic materials that include glass beads, plastic straws, index cards, tape, binder clips, paper clips, and a light source (eventually integrate their cell phone cameras in a new c
In this lesson students will apply knowledge of wave interference, light, refraction, reflection, transmission and conservation of energy in order to understand principles of thin film interference as they are applied in the development of anti-reflective coating for optical devices.
Following an introductory lesson on constructive and destructive interference and Young’s double slit experiment, students will be introduced to the history, design, and function of a Michelson interferometer.
The objective of this lesson is for the students to utilize content they have learned in my physics class to complete an engineering challenge. Students must angle mirrors appropriately in order to direct a laser beam onto a target.