SNC2DI : Unit 3 – Optics
Big Ideas
Light can be characterized as a wave and can be manipulated in a predictable way with lenses and mirrors.
| Dateeriqe | Topic | Resources / Homework / Practice |
| Dec 2 | Introduction to Optics |
see google classroom – Note 1 textbook page 398-399 #1-8. |
| Dec 3 | Limits of Light Video (the Electromagnetic Spectrum) |
Limits of Light Video Questions |
| Dec 5 | The Nature of Light | see google classroom – Note 1 |
| Dec 6 | Introduction to Colour Theory | Google Drawing Activity (see google classroom) |
| Dec 9 |
Colour Theory Completion Introduction to Reflection |
Additive vs Subtractive Colour Theory see google classroom – Note 2 |
| Dec 10 | Reflection Activity | text book – read pages 411-413 |
| Dec 11 | Creating Images in Plane Mirrors | see google classroom – Note 3 |
| Dec 12 |
Quiz – Light and Reflection Introduction to Curved Mirrors |
see google classroom – Note 4 |
| Dec 13 | Image Formation in Concave Mirrors | see google classroom – Note 5 |
| Dec 16 | Image Formation in Convex Mirrors |
see google classroom – Note 6 |
| Dec 17 |
Mr Marlow at Hockey Tournament “Mid Unit Review” |
get handout in class |
| Dec 19 |
Mr Marlow at Hockey Tournament Movie “The Prestige” |
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| Dec 20 | The “mirror equations” |
see google classroom – Note 7 |
| Christmas Break | ||
| Jan 6 | Practice with the mirror equations. | Gizmo Activity – class code 58683TVQHW |
| Jan 7 | Refraction |
see google classroom – Note 8 |
| Jan 8 | Converging and Diverging Lenses |
see google classroom – Note 9
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| Jan 9 | Ray Tracing for Lenses | Image Formation in Lenses Handout |
| Jan 10 | Using the Lens Equations | Optics Bench Simulation |
| Jan 13 | Practice – Ray Tracing and Using the Equations | |
| Jan 14 | Human Vision |
see google classroom – Note 10 handout – Image Formation in Eyeballs |
| Jan 15 | Optics Review | |
| Jan 16 | Optics Unit Test | |
| tbd | Eye Dissection Lab | |
