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Fairy Tale Physics
Optics: A Fairy Tale
This fairy tale introduces you to some of the most challenging concepts in introductory optics in a fun, easy, and entertaining way. It helps build an intuitive understanding of the concepts which will make problem solving much easier.
This story will help you prepare for an AP Physics or introductory college course. Or, if you hate physics but have ever wondered how lenses work, this will explain it to you without any equations, symbols, or story problems.
Topics covered in this fairy tale include:
Convex Lenses
Concave Lenses
Convex Mirrors
Concave Mirrors
This story will help you prepare for an AP Physics or introductory college course. Or, if you hate physics but have ever wondered how lenses work, this will explain it to you without any equations, symbols, or story problems.
Topics covered in this fairy tale include:
Convex Lenses
Concave Lenses
Convex Mirrors
Concave Mirrors
- GenresChildrens
37 pages, Kindle Edition
First published November 26, 2013
10 people are currently reading
120 people want to read
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Sarah Allen
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December 26, 2017
This is book 1 in the Physics Fairy Tales. The purpose of the story is to teach about a certain principle in Physics and make it understandable to someone who needs to learn the lesson in a different way.
The story was interesting and fun and was a quick lesson. After the story, the author explains the principle in plain language.
The only problem was that since the book was on a Kindle pictures used to demonstrate were not on the same page as the explanation.
I do recommend these books as they are a good way to help someone understand the lesson in a new way.
The story was interesting and fun and was a quick lesson. After the story, the author explains the principle in plain language.
The only problem was that since the book was on a Kindle pictures used to demonstrate were not on the same page as the explanation.
I do recommend these books as they are a good way to help someone understand the lesson in a new way.
December 17, 2015
Today We Didt
The woods surrounding Isabelle’s village are full of monsters. The villagers know it is not safe to enter the woods, but Isabelle must go to cut some wood to help her family survive. She discovers a monster stuck in a tree, and helps it. In return she is shown a special mirror in which she can capture the monsters’ souls so that they will stop terrorising her village.
This book introduces the properties of convex and concave mirrors and lenses in a fun and entertaining way. The mirror in the story is a large spherical concave mirror, like a big bowl on its side. In this mirror, Isabelle can see and trap the souls of the monsters that have chased her. She sees that the images of the souls change size and location when the monsters move closer to or further away from the mirror’s surface, and on the concave side, the images are upside-down. Through the telling of this story, I learnt a bit about optics. Being able to put this information into the context of a story will help me to remember the properties of concave and convex mirrors, and in turn, lenses.
There is a small section at the end of the story that explains these concepts in simple language. It covers the centre of curvature, focus and image location with simple diagrams to aid understanding.
Optics: A Fairy Tale is part of an educational series by Sarah Allen. This blend of fairy tale and physics is suitable for high school students and up. It simplifies some optics basics, helping to prepare physics students for more complex concepts.
*I received this book as a digital copy from the author, who asked me for an honest review of this book. I did not receive any other remuneration, and the review is composed entirely of my own opinions.
The woods surrounding Isabelle’s village are full of monsters. The villagers know it is not safe to enter the woods, but Isabelle must go to cut some wood to help her family survive. She discovers a monster stuck in a tree, and helps it. In return she is shown a special mirror in which she can capture the monsters’ souls so that they will stop terrorising her village.
This book introduces the properties of convex and concave mirrors and lenses in a fun and entertaining way. The mirror in the story is a large spherical concave mirror, like a big bowl on its side. In this mirror, Isabelle can see and trap the souls of the monsters that have chased her. She sees that the images of the souls change size and location when the monsters move closer to or further away from the mirror’s surface, and on the concave side, the images are upside-down. Through the telling of this story, I learnt a bit about optics. Being able to put this information into the context of a story will help me to remember the properties of concave and convex mirrors, and in turn, lenses.
There is a small section at the end of the story that explains these concepts in simple language. It covers the centre of curvature, focus and image location with simple diagrams to aid understanding.
Optics: A Fairy Tale is part of an educational series by Sarah Allen. This blend of fairy tale and physics is suitable for high school students and up. It simplifies some optics basics, helping to prepare physics students for more complex concepts.
*I received this book as a digital copy from the author, who asked me for an honest review of this book. I did not receive any other remuneration, and the review is composed entirely of my own opinions.
September 6, 2016
Really wish that this was not a short story... Would have loved more detail and for it to be longer.
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