Hand Spectroscope Kit

Students will get to see and appreciate the prismatic qualities of light by using this diffraction grating spectroscope kit.

White light can be separated into all of the colours of the spectrum by a prism or a diffraction grating. The spectroscope is an instrument used to observe this colour separation. It uses a diffraction grating with a narrow slit in the front through which light enters and is separated into the spectral colours. The diffraction grating is a plastic film with 900 grooves per mm which breaks the light down into its colour components.

Intricate and precise spectroscopes are used by astronomers and other scientists to investigate and chart the properties of stars and other glowing objects. The spectroscope can be used to examine the properties of continuous and bright-line spectra from various sources of light.