https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb en-us 2023-03-31 17:24:23 UTC 2026-03-23 17:34:49 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet-uploads.storage.googleapis.com/1987436096/00200fdc6fa1eb475b664511c4458ead/photo.jpeg APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540160347 Will dresses up in a white sheet with a white beard. Exhibit begins with him dressed as God and proclaiming, "let there be light!" as the lights turn on.]]> 2023-03-31 17:33:45 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540160347 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540161187 2023-03-31 17:34:41 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540161187 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540163146 Danny Devito will be cast as Socrates and he explains to the crowd the importance of critical thinking and challenging common beliefs. This is important for us to include as his methods are demonstrated by everyone associated with the history o flight. Although he did not specifically do anything related to light, his method allowed the following scientists to expand upon the known and unknown.]]> 2023-03-31 17:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540163146 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540167776 We would cast Leonardo DiCaprio as Aristotle. DiCaprio would explain how the idea that light is a particle has been disproven despite being widely accepted by people for a long time. Aristotle also predicted that color was on a spectrum, but is hypothesis as to why was incorrect. Much of the common knowledge we know about light was originally predicted by Aristotle]]> 2023-03-31 17:41:35 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540167776 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540173519 2023-03-31 17:47:47 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2540173519 oldanid1 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543954928 Vin Diesel would play the character of Heinrich Hertz. In Hertz’s segment, he would explain first his background of when he lived and the work that led up to his biggest experiment. There would then be a scale replica of the induction coil and Leyden jar set up to show how he took Maxwell's equations on electric and magnetic fields to produce electromagnetic waves. The lights would darken as Vin Deisel explained how the current jumping the spark gap induces electromagnetic waves that then are observed by the spark gap between two brass spheres. After the experiment, he would talk about how his discoveries paved the way for communication over long distances. ]]> 2023-04-04 17:14:59 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543954928 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543957534 We would cast Henry Cavill as Augustin-Jean Fresnel. Cavill would explain that Fresnel used Huygens Principle to make a mathematical description of diffraction. In 1817, he studied the laws of interference for polarized light, and he was the first to obtain circularly polarized light. This discovery led him to the conclusion that light was a transversal wave. Additionally, he created the Fresnel lens that includes hundreds of specially cut glass pieces surrounding a lamp bulb. It was used in lighthouses and other inventions to narrow the light into brighter and more concentrated beams.  ]]> 2023-04-04 17:17:29 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543957534 wyatt223251 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543969817 We would cast Harrison Ford as Albert Michelson and Jeff Goldblum as Edward Morley. They would explain how they collaborated to do the Michelson-Morley-Experiment which asked the question of whether there is a medium that light travels through called ether. They would further explain how this theoretical ether would cause light to move in a separate direction while traveling towards the mirrors (almost like wind pushing it). They would use the example of a person running a 100-meter race facing north. If the wind (ether) was moving from southwest to northeast, the runner (light) would be propelled in the northeast direction and theoretically run faster and get pushed in the northeast direction. They would then include the crowd in the discussion and ask for volunteers to predict whether or not the light would go faster. After getting volunteers, they would explain how they tested the theory. They explain how they used Michelson’s interferometer that produces light with extreme precision and reflected the light onto two separate mirrors to see if their reflections would return at the same time. They also did this in every direction in order to take all potential ethers into account. After several trials they saw that the beams of light returned at the same time and discovered that there is no medium that light travels through. Lastly, they would explain how it is influential to the history of light because Einstein used the information to discover his theory on light and relativity later on.]]> 2023-04-04 17:28:32 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543969817 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543975387 Rami Malek will be cast as Euclid. Euclid proposed many theories that changed our understanding of light, and Malek would present each of these to the audience. The first—light rays are straight lines. The second—we only see things that light falls upon. Third, you see objects in a particular direction because light rays come from that direction. It would be a laser show. ]]> 2023-04-04 17:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543975387 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543990759 We would cast Shaquielle O’Neal to play Ibn al-Haytham. We would have Shaq pop out of a comically small camera obscura and show to the audience how it works through concepts like the pin-hole camera. He will then explain that light can be thought of as rays perpendicular to an object. He would then tell the audience that an image is produced by those light rays bouncing off mediums and reflecting perpendicularly towards an observer. This would lead to Shaq explaining Haytham’s Theory of Optics, and how a cone of light rays bounce off an object back to the optic nerves behind our eyes, in which our brains then perceive the image. He would then enter a room full of mirrors and explain his Law of Refraction which explains how light reacts with reflective surfaces. As a final display, Shaq would then pull out a crystal ball and smash it on the ground. Out of the pieces on the ground, a perfect converging lens would be on the ground, which magnifies far away objects. Shaq would be surprised about this and write this observation down in his Book of Optics, which would play an incredibly important part in future scientists’ understanding of optics and how light behaves.  ]]> 2023-04-04 17:46:19 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2543990759 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544448827 We would cast Geoffrey Rush to play Einstein and Hugh Jackman to play Max Planck. Max Planck would use light up balls to explain his quantum theory and how light comes in particles called “quanta.” Then Albert Einstein would come on stage. He would explain how light has characteristics of both a particle, explained by Planck, and a wave. Then Planck would leave the stage. Einstein would walk through the hypothesis of the photoelectric effect. The photoelectric effect is a phenomenon in which electrons are emitted from a material when it is exposed to a form of electromagnetic radiation, such as light. He will then run through how it is used to create electricity from light. ]]> 2023-04-05 02:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544448827 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544477809 We could cast Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson as Huygens. The Rock would explain the Fresnel-Huygens Principle, which was theorized by Huygens. This principle was the first time anyone theorized that light was a wave, and every point of light in a transparent medium may be a new source of waves that expand in every direction.]]> 2023-04-05 03:06:39 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544477809 ethan223252 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544518149 My part of the experience will be acted out by Neil deGrasse Tyson. He will add scientific backing to the rest of the famous actors. His tone and understanding will set a base for remembrance. He will first recap the information prior acted out and then transition to the present. He will touch on the far reaches of Socrates and then recollect on the spectrum of colors and the double-slit experiment. He will ask the audience to name fast things hoping for answers like cars, airplanes, superheroes, and animals. He then will ask the question of how fast is light? The audience should be engaged and shout out answers. Then the number of 299,792,458 m/s will pop up on the screen. Neil will relate it to the human mind just how large that number really is. An introduction to the Evensen experiment that measured this speed should ensue.  The use of high known frequency laser and the half mirror to measure destructive and constructive interference at half a wavelength of light. A set of this experiment will be present on stage and Tyson will ask for an audience member to help him conduct the experiment. Next will be a segway to wave/particle aspect of light.  He then will talk about how light bends in vacuum due to gravity which Newton first suggested. A representation of gravity and the stretching of space will be presented with a ball on fabric on the stage. Lastly leaving an effect, he will talk about the experiments with particle accelerators. He will use hot wheels, a circular track and a motor that constantly speeds up the car's travel which will represent the particle accelerator. He then will relay this to the experiment of using gold ion’s traveling the speed of light to tell the audience that photons can produce a matter and antimatter pair. ]]> 2023-04-05 03:49:32 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544518149 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544887360 We would cast Chris Evans to be Newton. He would talk like he’s in the early 1900s and will discuss a few of his successes and things he’s known for. He would conduct and show the audience his prism experiment. He will be very passionate that he is correct and explains his theory about the color spectrum and that light is a particle. Then, he will ask for volunteers to come up. He will ask them what he thinks will happen when he shines a white light though a glass prism. Once they all make their guesses, he will shine the white light and reveal the color spectrum.]]> 2023-04-05 11:21:52 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2544887360 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2545006607 2023-04-05 13:31:10 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2545006607 APPhysII5thHour https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2545022003 We will also touch on the hidden love affair between Michelson and Morley during the experiments]]> 2023-04-05 13:43:41 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2545022003 https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2545244859 We would cast Tom Hanks as James Clerk Maxwell. Hanks would explain his contributions to color vision. Those contributions would be showing how red, green, and blue are better primary colors than red, yellow, and blue and being able to distinguish between hue, tint, and shade. He also expanded on Young’s three-color hypothesis by creating a color top. He created a color box which could help combine colors, as well as creating the first color photograph in 1861. He had more ideas that didn’t have to do with color such as proving that transverse waves traveled at the speed of light. ]]> 2023-04-05 17:00:26 UTC https://padlet.com/APPhysII5thHour/a9ao0bj2uccdafqb/wish/2545244859