let’s make a spectrometer!

Here is a pretty cool picture of my partner Jack Condrey looking into our spectrometer!

Here are our Light Sources:

Fluorescent LightsLED Lights – From my phone

The SunHere are the pictures of our spectrums.

Fluorescent LightsLED Lights

The Sun

Based on this experiment I have concluded that different light sources have different types of spectrums. In the first spectrum, the fluorescent light one, I identified red, orange, purple, yellow and green. This is different from the LED light spectrum, which is mainly green, red and yellow-orange. And lastly, the Sun’s spectrum is very different from all of them, because it is a blend of the colors of the rainbow.  Based on this information, I can conclude that different light sources composed of different elements emit different types of light, that can be represented in our spectrographs. Because of this lab, I can further understand light and the properties that it has.