A Matter of Perspective

After testing the student’s wits with some fun riddles this week, we briefly delved into our next topic. Electricity, and the theory of electromagnetism. The majority of this week’s session was talking about the moon, it’s behavior, and the optical illusions related to its apparent size.

After discussing these optical illusions, how physicist have dealt with them, and their neurological cause, we grasped this special opportunity to see the Super-moon in person. We took a field trip out to a near by park where a telescope waited for us, to observe this special moon peak out over the Boston skyline. This tied in closely with our last unit on optics, with the students getting reminded of upside down images in optical systems.

Getting to see a moon of this size was a once in a lifetime opportunity for many of us, being that it’s the closest it has been in 70 years.