Bill Nye The Science Guy Series | ||||||||||||
 Bill Nye knows how to provide easy access to hard science. What's his secret? A fast-paced approach blending humorous hijinks and hands-on activities with real-life situations, with a focus on illustrating and reinforcing key concepts in a really enjoyable and totally non-boring way! Bill encourages young students to ask interesting questions... then shows them how to discover fascinating answers. | ||||||||||||
| Light Optics | ||||||||||||
| Don't stay in the dark - Bill Nye will help you absorb the science of light optics... Light is energy that normally moves in a straight line, but often something gets in the way. When light runs into something, three things can happen - the light can bounce off, it can go through, or it can be absorbed. Often all three things happen at the same time. Light bounces off mirrors. You see yourself in a mirror when light bounces off your face, into the mirror, and then into your eyes. Light goes through glass. If the glass is bent or curved, the light gets bent on its way out of the glass. The glass in a magnifying glass or a pair of eyeglasses is curved so that it bends light, making things look bigger. More light is absorbed by dark-coloured things than by light coloured things. Colours are made when some light is absorbed while other light is bounced back. Black things look black because, when light hits them, they absorb almost all of the light. In outer space, there are objects with so much mass, so much material in them, that their gravity can bend the path of beams of light. You won't believe your eyes when The Science Guy reflects, refracts, bends, bounces, absorbs and pulls light waves to show how things can be seen in different ways. Using lenses, mirrors and water, Bill's optical illusions are sights to behold, and guest stars Penn and Teller prove there's more to light optics than magic! Be sure to brighten your day with Bill Nye the Science Guy! | ||||||||||||
| Running Time: 26 mins | ||||||||||||
| Age Range: 9 - 13 Years | ||||||||||||
| Year of Production: 1996 | ||||||||||||
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