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Refraction In An Olive Jar 'Lens'

You Need

1 long, thin jar, such as an olive jar

Try This!

1. Fill a long, thin jar to the brim with fresh, clean water, and cap the jar.
You can use this cylinder-shaped container of water as a ‘lens’.

2. Hold the ‘lens’ in the horizontal position, very close to the paper, and
examine the writing below, by looking through the lens:

BOB DAD MOM OXO

3. Move the ‘lens’ away from the writing. What happens to the images of the words as you move the lens away?

4. Why do the images of some words appear ‘upside down’ (inverted), but not other images?

Think about it!

Hint! Take a close look at the individual letters in the words you were looking at through the ‘lens’. What would each letter look like if it was upside down?

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