Light · Physics
Optics pins and pin board
What it is for
Mark a ray’s path on paper: line up the pins and their images by eye.
Mistake to avoid Putting the pins close together, so the line through them, and the angle measured from it, is uncertain; space them at least 5 cm apart.
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