Science Practical

AIM : To study the Kaleidoscope.

REQUIREMENT : Three rectangular mirror, strips, cardboard tube..
PROCEDURE :
1. Take three rectangular mirror strips.
2. Each strips about 15 cm long and 4 cm wide.
3. Join all the three strips to make a prism.
4. Fix them in a circular cardboard.
5. Make sure that the tube is slightly longer than a mirror
strips.
6. Close one end of the tube by a circular cardboard disc and
having hole at the centre.
7. Keep a piece of transparent plastic sheet under the
cardboard disc.
8. Fix the mirror at circular plane.
9. Place on this glass plate several small pieces of coloured
papers.
10. Allow enough space for the colour pieces to move
aroung.
OBSERVATION :
A kaleidoscope works by reflecting light. Light travels in a straight
line. When light bumps into something it changes direction. If light
bumps into something shiny it reflects back in the direction it came
from.

Conclusion :
A laleidoscope is an optical instrument which has two or more
reflecting surfaces skewed to each other in an angle, so that one or more
objects on one end of the mirrors are perceives as a regular symmetrical
pattern observed from one end to other.
DIAGRAM :