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    1) The document provides instructions for making a simple spectroscope out of card and a CD to view the visible light spectrum. 2) When using the spectroscope, different light sources like the sun, torches, TV screens, and fluorescent lights emit different color spectra that can be observed. 3) Spectroscopy is used in science to analyze the composition of stars, galaxies, chemical compounds, and materials used in solar energy by studying the light they emit or absorb.

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    1) The document provides instructions for making a simple spectroscope out of card and a CD to view the visible light spectrum. 2) When using the spectroscope, different light sources like the sun, torches, TV screens, and fluorescent lights emit different color spectra that can be observed. 3) Spectroscopy is used in science to analyze the composition of stars, galaxies, chemical compounds, and materials used in solar energy by studying the light they emit or absorb.

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    1) The document provides instructions for making a simple spectroscope out of card and a CD to view the visible light spectrum. 2) When using the spectroscope, different light sources like the sun, torches, TV screens, and fluorescent lights emit different color spectra that can be observed. 3) Spectroscopy is used in science to analyze the composition of stars, galaxies, chemical compounds, and materials used in solar energy by studying the light they emit or absorb.

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    Make Your Own Spectroscope

    Instructions: Make a rainbow in a box using


    card and a CD.

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    Make your own Spectroscope Information

    Print out the template and follow the instructions on it. As well as the template you
    will also need scissors, an A4 sheet of card (thicker card and darker colours work
    best), glue, sellotape and a CD. You will also need a light source to look at when
    youve finished, e.g. a light in your house or a torch.

    Using your spectroscope

    When youve made your spectroscope, hold it under a light (so the light shines
    through hole b) and put your eye up to the circular hole. You should be able to see
    a spectrum of colours. The CD acts as a diffraction grating to split the light into the
    colours of the rainbow.

    Try looking at different light sources to see what colours of the spectrum they give
    out or emit.

    The sun and many torches emit all the If you look at a TV screen or a
    colours of the rainbow and a fluorescent light you will see separate
    continuous spectrum of all the lines of different colours
    colours can be seen.

    Sunlight

    Sunlight is made of the Electromagnetic Spectrum, some parts of which you


    might have heard of like radio waves and x-rays.

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    The most useful part of the spectrum for Solar scientists is visible light (the light
    we can see) as it has enough energy and all of it reaches the Earths surface.

    Solar cells and panels are good at turning visible light energy into electricity so
    we want to capture as much of it as possible.

    Visible Light
    Visible light can be split up into all the colours of the
    rainbow. When you see a rainbow in the sky, the visible
    light from the sun is split up by the raindrops in the air.
    We can also use prisms or things called diffraction
    gratings to split the light up too.

    In solar cells, we use coloured materials like dyes and polymers to absorb the
    different colours of the rainbow in order to make electricity from the sun.

    Spectroscopy in Science

    The way that the Electromagnetic Spectrum interacts with matter is called
    Spectroscopy. We use special spectroscopes in science to find out lots of things
    about everything around us

    Astrophysicists
    use spectroscopy to find out what stars are made of and
    how galaxies move by studying the light they emit into
    space.

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    New chemical compounds are identified using


    spectroscopy to find out what elements they are
    made of.
    Solar scientists use spectroscopy to investigate
    new dyes and materials for solar cells.

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    Make your own spectroscope


    1. Glue this template onto an A4 piece of card.
    2. Cut along all the solid black lines with
    scissors, including line a, and cut out the
    rectangles b and c (its a bit tricky!).
    3. Fold along all the dotted black lines.
    4. Make the template into a box by joining the
    2 same numbered flaps together, e.g. 1 joins 3
    to 1.

    5. Put a CD into the box through the slot you


    made at line a with the bottom rainbowy
    side of the CD facing upwards.
    6. Look into the box through the square hole
    and you should be able to see light split into
    a rainbow.
    2 7. Try looking at different types and colours of 3
    light and see what changes in your
    spectroscope.

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