Sunday, May 18, 2008

lenses in my room



sorry no video this week, youtube isn't cooperating with my computer.

so as i was thinking (panicking) for an idea i came across the shot glasses in my room.
as i pondered the structure of the little things i noticed something peculiar about the bottom of the glass. it forms a ) ( structure thereby making a diverging lens. i looked around my room and took the following pictures. a diverging lens is created when it takes light either from a parallel source and spreads it out or the other way around. in this case it takes light that is spread out and brings it together making it smaller. it takes light from all around the outside of the lens and condenses it to an area that is not as large. it doesn't converge the rays, only condenses.
and so there is my physics for the week.

lenses in my room