{"id":657,"date":"2015-03-10T14:22:31","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paksc.org\/pk\/?p=657"},"modified":"2015-03-10T14:22:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-10T14:22:31","slug":"1026-homemade-cd-spectroscope","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paksc.org\/pk\/science-experiments\/physics-experiments\/1026-homemade-cd-spectroscope\/","title":{"rendered":"Homemade Simple CD Spectroscope"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p><strong>Concept: We can make a spectroscope using a CD instead of replica grating.<\/strong><\/p>\n<h3>\u00a0Introduction:<\/h3>\n<p>CD (Compact Disc) is used as a music media and a kind of computer memory media. When you look at the surface of CD under a fluorescent light or sunlight, you can see something like a rainbow. The reason is that CD has a large number of grooves (pits) on its surface at regular intervals along its radius. Namely, CD is something like a reflecting type grating. So, we can make a spectroscope using a disused CD.<\/p>\n<h3>Materials:<\/h3>\n<p>(a) A4 size cardboard\u00a0 (b) a disused CD\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 (c) a black permanent marker (d) a cutter\/scissors\u00a0\u00a0 (e) wood glue\u00a0 (f) sellotape<\/p>\n<h3>Construction:<\/h3>\n<ol>\n<li>Draw the figures of parts A, B on the cardboard as shown in Fig.2.<\/li>\n<li>Cut out the parts A, B and paint the back side of them black using a black permanent marker.3. Make two slits on the parts A and fold it as shown in Fig.2<\/li>\n<li>to make a solid body as shown in Fig.3 using wood glue.<\/li>\n<li>Put the CD into the solid bodyand fix it to the tabs of parts A using sellotape as shown in Fig.4.<\/li>\n<li>Using sellotape, attach the parts B to the tabs of parts A as shown in Fig.4<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption aligncenter\" title=\"Homemade CD Spectroscope diagram\" src=\"http:\/\/paksc.org\/pk\/images\/stories\/spectroscope%201.jpg\" alt=\"Homemade CD Spectroscope diagram\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption aligncenter\" title=\"Homemade CD Spectroscope\" src=\"http:\/\/paksc.org\/pk\/images\/stories\/spectroscope%202.jpg\" alt=\"Homemade CD Spectroscope\" border=\"0\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concept: We can make a spectroscope using a CD instead of replica grating. \u00a0Introduction: CD (Compact Disc) is used as a music media and a kind of computer memory media. 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