Science Homework Task
Your task is to produce a piece of work on Isaac Newton and
his work on light. You can create a
poster, a leaflet or a spider diagram showing what you have understood. Below is some information on Isaac Newton,
however if you want to, you can also look up more information on the internet.
Isaac Newton and Light
Isaac Newton, universally considered to be one of the
greatest and most influential scientists of all time, was an English
mathematical and physicist, widely known for his outstanding contributions to
physics, mathematics and optics. He also invented the calculus, and formulated
the three laws of motion and the universal theory of gravitation. Newton proved
that sunlight is the combination of several colors.
One of the most important experiments on light was made by
Isaac Newton. He was the greatest of all English men of science. He discovered
that sunshine (white light) is made up of many colours. Over 300 years ago, Sir
Isaac Newton passed a beam of white light through a prism. A
prism is a triangular piece of glass, which allows light to spread out into a
band of six colours. These colours are red, orange, yellow, green, blue and
violet.
Newton then sent this light through a second prism where the
light became white once again. What did Sir Isaac Newton do? He first took
the white light apart and then he put it back together again.
