Gilbert light experiments for boys . Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2013 GILBERT LIGHT EXPERIMENTS FUN WITH BRIGHT SUNLIGHT Experiment No. 1. To obtain morethan one million miles of sunshine. Gooutside with your watch in your handand stand in the sunlight (Fig. 1) for justsix seconds. In that short six secondsyou will have received more than 1,000,-000 miles of sunlight. Light travels atthe enormous velocity of 186,000 milesper second, and therefore in six secondsyou receive on your body 186,000 X 6 =1,116,000 miles of sunlight. Experiment No. 2.

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Gilbert light experiments for boys . Digitized by the Internet Archivein 2013 GILBERT LIGHT EXPERIMENTS FUN WITH BRIGHT SUNLIGHT Experiment No. 1. To obtain morethan one million miles of sunshine. Gooutside with your watch in your handand stand in the sunlight (Fig. 1) for justsix seconds. In that short six secondsyou will have received more than 1,000,-000 miles of sunlight. Light travels atthe enormous velocity of 186,000 milesper second, and therefore in six secondsyou receive on your body 186,000 X 6 =1,116,000 miles of sunlight. Experiment No. 2. To receive overtwo thousand million million light your hand in a beam of sunlight(Fig. 2) for six seconds and then with-draw Fig. 1. You receive1,000,000 miles of sunshinegilbertlightexpe00lynd

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