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ERIC Number: EJ892014
Record Type: Journal
Publication Date: 2007-Sep
Pages: 4
Abstractor: As Provided
Reference Count: 7
ISBN: N/A
ISSN: ISSN-0031-921X
Inquiry with Laser Printer Diffraction Gratings
Van Hook, Stephen J.
Physics Teacher, v45 n6 p340-343 Sep 2007
The pages of "The Physics Teacher" have featured several clever designs for homemade diffraction gratings using a variety of materials--cloth, lithographic film, wire, compact discs, parts of aerosol spray cans, and pseudoliquids and pseudosolids. A different and inexpensive method I use to make low-resolution diffraction gratings takes advantage of specialty transparency film designed for use with laser printers. A standard laser printer can print black lines (separated by a white line) at 60 black lines/cm (about 150 lines/in), which is a small enough spacing to produce a crude diffraction grating [see Fig. 1(a)] that is sufficient for the physics inquiry activities described in this paper.
American Association of Physics Teachers. One Physics Ellipse, College Park, MD 20740. Tel: 301-209-3300; Fax: 301-209-0845; e-mail: pubs@aapt.org; Web site: http://scitation.aip.org/tpt
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive
Education Level: N/A
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Language: English
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