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Helping Students Discover Total Internal Reflection

Students learn the basic relationship of Snell's Law, practice applying it to a situation, then are given another situation where it "doesn't work."??? This situation turns out to be one in which total internal reflection occurs. Students are then shown what happens with classroom apparatus.

Keywords:: Engineering, Lecture, NSDL, Optics, Demonstrations, Interactive Lectures, Physics

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Science and Technology / Engineering

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Material Type:: Simulation
Date Added to MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Date Modified in MERLOT:: July 27, 2016
Author:: Kathleen Harper
Submitter:: Barbra Bied Sperling

Primary Audience:: High School, College General Ed, College Lower Division
Technical Format:: Website
Mobile Compatibility:: Not specified at this time
Language:: English
Cost Involved:: No
Source Code Available:: No
Creative Commons:: This work is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 United States