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Exploratorium Science Snacks: Hot Spot
published by the Exploratorium
This Exploratorium web page offers an at-home experiment demonstrating how the radiation from an electric heater can be focused into an image, or "hot spot", in the same way that visible light rays are focused. The experiment description lists all the necessary supplies and procedures needed to carry out the experiment.
https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hot-spot
Subjects Levels Resource Types
Heat
- General
Light
- Geometrical Optics
= Reflection - Curved Surfaces
- High School
- Informal Education
- Middle School
- Lower Undergraduate
- Instructional Material
= Activity
= Laboratory
= Project
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- General Publics
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Access Rights: Free access
Restriction: © 1998 Exploratorium
Has a copyright or other licensing restriction.
Keywords: focal length, heat, heat radiation, light, radiation, reflection, thermal radiation
Record Creator: Metadata instance created September 9, 2008 by Logan Hancock
Record Updated: Aug 02, 2016 by Lyle Barbato
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AIP Format
(Exploratorium, San Francisco, 1998), WWW Document, (https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hot-spot).
AJP/PRST-PER
Exploratorium Science Snacks: Hot Spot (Exploratorium, San Francisco, 1998), <https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hot-spot>.
APA Format
Exploratorium Science Snacks: Hot Spot. (2008, September 1). Retrieved September 7, 2024, from Exploratorium: https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hot-spot
Chicago Format
Exploratorium. Exploratorium Science Snacks: Hot Spot. San Francisco: Exploratorium, September 1, 2008. https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hot-spot (accessed 7 September 2024).
MLA Format
Exploratorium Science Snacks: Hot Spot. San Francisco: Exploratorium, 1998. 1 Sep. 2008. 7 Sep. 2024 <https://www.exploratorium.edu/snacks/hot-spot>.
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@misc{ Title = {Exploratorium Science Snacks: Hot Spot}, Publisher = {Exploratorium}, Volume = {2024}, Number = {7 September 2024}, Month = {September 1, 2008}, Year = {1998} }
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