An incandescent light bulb with a looping filament, housed in a wooden box with an attached power cord.

Carbon Filament Lamp in Shielded Box

Item 341
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Wooden 8x10 view camera with black bellows extended, metal lens on front standard, mounted on wooden base with metal rails
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8 x 10-Inch View Camera

A large-format view camera projects an inverted, real image of a carbon filament lamp onto a ground glass screen. Students directly observe image formation by a converging lens and the …
Large concave mirror in a round metal frame on a wooden base, with an adjustable brass lab stand beside it; a projected image of the carbon filament is visible on the blackboard behind
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Concave and Convex Hand Mirrors

Demonstrates real and virtual image formation using concave and convex hand mirrors with a carbon filament lamp. Students observe inverted real images projected by the concave mirror and diminished virtual …
Lecture hall with translucent screen on left showing inverted real image of a glowing lamp filament, large convex lens on tripod in center, and boxed lamp visible in background right
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Convex Lens and Lamp

A large convex lens (f = 220 cm) projects a real, inverted image of a lamp filament onto a screen. Students directly observe real image formation and can verify the …
Full setup: translucent screen at left, multicolor LED tower on stand at center, incandescent light bulb in wooden box at right, with bar clamp, lead brick, and masks on bench

Introducing a Pinhole

A sequential progression from shadow casting through slit projection to pinhole imaging. Students build intuition for rectilinear propagation, image inversion, and the pinhole camera principle by drawing ray diagrams at …
Two small pith balls suspended by fine threads from a bent metal rod, positioned between a lamp (left) and a projection screen showing filament-shaped shadow patterns
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Negative Pinhole

Demonstrates the "negative pinhole" effect: small opaque objects cast shadows that transition from object-shaped to source-shaped as the object moves closer to the light. Students learn that rectilinear propagation allows …