Exploring the Microcosm  
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January 2015
Olivier Tardif-Paradis, Mathieu Riopel
In this activity, the students will explore the characteristics of the microscope used by Robert Hooke in the 17th century. First they have to determine which of a selection of lenses would achieve the o...  
Length : 3 hours
     
  Prism Spectroscope  
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July 2016
Alexandre April, Mathieu Riopel and Olivier Tardif-Paradis
In this activity, the students will design a prism spectroscope. To do this, they will first analyse the instrument as an imaging system (the spectral lines spread by the spectroscope correspond to images from the ...  
Length : 3 hrs