On June 5th we drove up to Bangor to visit the Photonics Laboratory at the United Technologies Center. The word Photonics means anything to do with light. Although we spent several hours driving there and back, there is no doubt it was well worth it. Mr. Ralph Chapman runs the lab, and he showed us some wonderful experiments. In the picture above, he is holding a filter that blocks out light, but the heat from the bulb passed through and was able to leave a clear impression on a heat sensitive pad just out of this picture. This and other similar experiments - which I photographed extensively - will really help with clarifying the concepts we will be studying in this unit.
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