Period 1

Today in class, we learned more about how light bends. We drew some models of this in class that showed slower light waves and faster light waves.

<-----------This picture is our model of a faster light wave.

This is a picture of our model of a slower light wave. ------------->

Also, we decided that speed is the amount of distance

traveled in a certain amount of time.

Then, we watched a video on when you attach two slinkies together and then you shine a light

through the slinkies. I predicted that when the light meets where the two slinkies meet together, there will be some sort of shock or the light will stop for a second. We also decided that when it meets from less dense to more dense, the light will become faster, and when it goes from more dense to less dense, it will become slower. When we actually watched the video, as soon as the light reached where the slinkies met, the light bounced back, then finished. Here's the model we came up with for this.

This proved that my prediction was not confirmed because instead of stopping for a second, it bounced back, then started up again.

-E.P.