HOW TO MAKE A CAMERA OBSCURA

  Go into a very dark room on a bright day. Make a small hole in a window cover and look at the opposite wall. What do you see? Magic! There in full color and movement will be the world outside the window - upside down! This magic is explained by a simple law of the physical world. Light travels in a straight line and when some of the rays reflected from a bright subject pass through a small hole in thin material they do not scatter but cross and re-form as an upside down and backwards image on a flat surface held parallel to the hole.    more  
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