Optics Learning Activities
Avantor offers a complete catalog of instruments and tools useful for demonstrating key, basic concepts of physics that are applicable to everyday life both in and out of the laboratory. Demonstrate core ideas such as acceleration down a plane, friction, potential and kinetic energy, electrical conductivity, magnetic fields, wavelengths and velocity of sound, and more. Durable educational materials are designed for heavy use with consistent levels of handling, and all models are easy to use.
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Light Box and Optical Set
This kit is very useful for reflection, refraction, and color mixing experiments.
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Essential Physics Demo: Large Demonstration Lenses
Makes demonstrations viewable by the entire classroom.
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Acrylic Pipe Demonstration
Show students how light reflects inside an acrylic pipe.
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Eisco Glass Prism and Lens Set, 7-Pieces
A variety of lenses and prism block shapes, packed in a wood storage case.
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Optical Refraction Components
These Optical Refraction Components are made from imported optical glass or acrylic with optically worked surfaces.
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Glass Equilateral Prisms
Designed for educational purposes and science classroom demonstrations in optics, light refraction, spectrometry, and wavelengths.
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Rive Ray Box
High quality and low cost make this ideally suited for junior high or high school students.
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Acrylic Equilateral Prisms
Designed for educational purposes and science classroom demonstrations of refraction principles and light physics.
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Eisco Laser Ray Box
This laser ray box is adjustable, magnetic, and bright enough to use in ambient light.
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Eisco Semi-Plano Glass Lenses
Individual round glass lenses made with one flat side.
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Modeling Clay
Four individually wrapped colored sticks of easy-to-use Permoplast modeling clay can come in handy when doing setups for an optical bench. Each stick of clay weighs 0.25 lbs. Colors include red, yellow, blue, and green.
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Ray Box
This Ray Box is a simple, safe, and sturdy source of projected light for many classic optics experiments. Best of all, you don't need a completely dark room to conduct optic experiments due to its high-intensity light!

