How Does Water Affect Light?

We went through five stages to reach the claim of this experiment. The first stage we went through, we looked at a newspaper covered with a slide and a droplet of water on it. To start, we looked at the slide with the droplet of water on it and it showed us that the water droplet on the slide made the words on the newspaper bigger, or magnified. The second stage that we went through was the pencil in the water. From that experiment we learned that the light that shines on the water makes the pencil look bent, or not straight. The third stage that we went through was a penny, a tin pan, and some water. The penny was on the edge of the tin pan and we got far enough away from it that we couldn’t see it anymore. Next, we poured water in the tin pan and we could see the penny. After that stage we learned that when light hits an object, in water, the light will refract. The fourth stage that we went through was with a jar of water and a piece of paper with an arrow on it. The arrow was on the other side of the jar of water when we looked through it. From looking through the jar, we saw that the arrow was going the opposite way and the lines weren’t straight. From that stage we learned that the water in the jar will make the arrow go the opposite way then the arrow is really going, and a lot bigger then it really is. The last stage we went through was with two toilet paper rolls and a pan of water. We learned that the two tubes will be lined up when you look through them when the pan of water is in between them, but when you look above they won’t be lined up. So we learned that light can make things in or beside water look different. We also learned that refraction tricks your eyes. Over all we learned better to do experiments than to read in our science books.
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By Hannah and Bridget!