12-15 July 2011
Saint George Hotel
Africa/Johannesburg timezone

The Pinhole Camera: A fascinating optical device for physics freshmen.

13 Jul 2011, 12:00
15m
Acro7

Acro7

Oral Presentation Track E - Physics Education Education

Speaker

Mr John Motsoeneng (University of Pretoria)

Description

A simple pinhole camera was used to demonstrate to students that light travels in a straight line. The one to one correspondence between a point on the object and a point on the image was used to explain why the image was upside down and reversed from left to right.

Level (Hons, MSc, <br> &nbsp; PhD, other)? other
Consider for a student <br> &nbsp; award (Yes / No)? no
Would you like to <br> submit a short paper <br> for the Conference <br> Proceedings (Yes / No)? no

Primary authors

Mr Edwin Mapasha (University of Pretoria) Mr John Motsoeneng (University of Pretoria)

Co-author

Dr Cable Moji (University of Pretoria)

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