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Light Action! Amazing Experiments with Optics

Age 9+
Grade 4+

Vicki Cobb, Josh Cobb, Theo Cobb

Light Action! Amazing Experiments with Optics

Paperback (SPIE Publications April 1, 2005) , illustrated edition edition
Faster than anything in the universe! Sustainer of life as we know it! What is this miraculous, mysterious thing? It's light. And you can be its master with optics, the science of the future. Optics lets you:

- Bend light around corners
- Stop time with a pair of sunglasses
- Capture light on a silver tray
- Magnify pictures with an ice cube
- Pour light into your palm
- Project a big-screen image from your small TV
- Fool a doorbell with a bike reflector!
Once you get your head and hands into optics, the world will never look the same again. That's a promise.
Dozens of experiments.
Illustrated by Theo Cobb.
Ages 11 and up.

Series
Press Monograph
ISBN
0819458511 / 9780819458513
Pages
208
Weight
10.4 oz.
Dimensions
5.2 x 0.5 in.