Logger pro spectrometer plus#
While contemplating the various features of the Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer, consider the mental gymnastics to have a graphical display of the wavelength absorbance of a material like spinach leaves. The Vernier Go Direct SpectroVis Plus Spectrophotometer is a tabletop solution for measuring wavelength spectrum in absorbance, percent transmission and intensity. After reading it, I look at the humble wire with renewed appreciation across time and technology.
And for those students who don’t know what a wire is, there is a fascinating history of the wire on Wikipedia. And I won’t ignore the irony that using a sensor to measure aspects of light that in turn transmits that data with light (Bluetooth radio) to a screen that emits light. One tool that can make the transition from imagination to conceptualization to concrete application is the spectrometer. One of the surprising educational contradictions about light is that although we use it to measure, to photograph, to communicate, and of course to see, understanding light requires a disproportionate amount of imagination. And its use is instrumental in the study of just about everything else. And on the science education side, light is a critical feature of wave science yet has properties of a particle.
It solves all kinds of problems, can travel great distances with little effort, and its very existence has become possibly the greatest metaphor ever. Of all the cool things invented by the universe, light is one of the most amazing.
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