Thursday, May 12, 2011

Lab lesson on Light

This week, we were introduced to the new topic of light. As I am more inclined to Chemistry, the first time when I heard about this topic, I felt that it was pretty boring. I did not look forward to it in any way. This was also because I had a concept that light was an extremely complicated topic involving many theories and formulaes. But after today's lab lesson, I found that light was actually quite an intuitive topic. I think we have been taking light around us for granted without knowing its background theories. I am glad I learnt that today. We conducted experiments on the properties of light and how it would refract and reflect at different angles to an object or mirror. I am actually quite intrigued, especially when I saw the refraction of light. It was also rather cool, as we did the experiments in the dark.At the same time, our science teacher has taught us some basic information on light and mirror, such as the different types of mirror and the laws of reflection etc. After all these,I felt that I was truly en"lightened". After all , light wasn't so complicated at all. In fact, unlike other topics, I found out that light involves the least amount of memorisation. Know the basic principles, observe carefully and you will be able to handle questions on light. Physics was indeed a livelier subject. I now look forward to an enriching experience of learning a new Physics topic.

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