Vera van der Eng

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Report Science Centre
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17-5-2017
 Light and the Science centre
Hello! I am Vera and I need to make a report for school about the Science
Centre and the phenomenon that I have chosen. I have chosen for light,
because I found that very interesting and I could find a lot of information about
it in the Science Centre. I enjoyed it really much.

Content:
The Science Centre
Light and colour
Light and lenses
Light and mirrors
Christiaan Huygens
The Science Centre
When we come in the Science Centre we first get a tour in
a part of the museum. We go to a telescope with lenses. He
was the 11th biggest of the world. That telescope was also
120 years old. There were two telescopes above each
other. The one at the top was to search where you want to
look at and the one at the bottom was to look close to
something. When you
want to look through the
telescope you sometimes need to use a ladder. But also
with a ladder is the place where you need to look through
the telescope to high. There they found something for. The
floor can go 2 meter up, so you can look easier through the
telescope. The roof can also open and turn, so you can look
to all the stars. By the Science Centre they also had a
telescope who works with mirrors. It was one of the 300th
biggest telescopes on the world. The mirror reflected the
light and how bigger the mirror, how better. When the tour
was finished we can do research on or own phenomenon.
You could do a lot of things over there and that makes it
interesting and fun to do. I really enjoyed it in the Science
Centre and I have learned a lot.

Light and colour

White light consist out of all the colours of the rainbow. You can only see them when you
split the white light. You can do that with a prism. A prism is a piece of glass shaped like all
sides look rectangular except the bottom and the top side,
they are the most of the time triangle shaped. On the
picture you can see an example of a prism. You can split
light with a prism, but also with a spectroscope. When you
look with a spectroscope trough light, you can see out of
which colours it consist. You can look with it to all colours
of light and not only to white light. A spectroscope can
look like the one in the museum on the picture, but you
can also make an easy one by yourself with a toilet roll and
a cd. The one you made by your own will probably not
work as good as the one in the museum, but it will work.
Light and lenses
Light travels in straight lines. With a lens you can let light go
to a other way, this is called refraction. You have concave
and convex lenses. On the picture at the left you can see
that the light travels straight. On the picture in the middle
you can see light going through a concave lens. The light
diverges. On the picture at the right you see that the light
goes through a convex lens. The light converge. The light
lines meet each other at one point. That point is called the
focal point.

Light and mirrors

Light change also his way when it comes in a mirror.
You call this reflection. You can see on the picture on the
right how that works. Light comes to the mirror. The mirror
reflects the light and the light goes to a other direction. On
the picture on the left you can see
that light comes in a mirror in the
shape of a bowl. The light reflects Mirror
on al de sides of the mirror to the
middle, so it look like it something
can come out of the mirror. You can do funny thins with it. For example as
what I am doing underneed the picture where I was talking about. I am trying
to shake there my own hand. It was a funny thing.

Christiaan Huygens
Christiaan Huygens was a famous Dutch scientist. He was well
known by the invention of the pendulum clock and the
discovering of the ring from Saturn. Christiaan Huygens
concluded that light slowed down in dense materials. In 1662
Huygens invented a combination of lenses which showed a
minimum of colour deviation: The Huygens eyepiece. For
astronomical work he made with his brother Constantijn a 4
meter long telescope. He used telescopes to observe the stars
and planets and he concluded also that Saturn had a ring.