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Un fichier SKILL.md (le guide pratique) + un modèle de départ. Aperçu :

Optical Bench Diagram

When to use

• You need a diagram of a lens, mirror, or prism experiment for a lab handout, a lesson, or a report
• A student asks "what does the setup actually look like?" and a paragraph of description isn't landing
• You're documenting an experiment so someone else can rebuild it from the diagram alone
• You want a clean top-view bench layout showing where each component sits on the rail
• You're explaining ray behavior — focal points, reflections, refraction — and need rays drawn, not just described

Workflow

1. List the components (input: experiment description → output: component list)
   Name every physical piece in the setup: light source, slits, lenses (converging or diverging, with focal length), mirrors (flat, concave, convex), prisms, screens, detectors, and the bench or rail itself. Include the numbers you know — focal lengths, distances between components, wavelengths — and mark the ones you're estimating. A diagram built from a guessed focal length silently teaches the wrong geometry, so guesses get flagged, not hidden.
2. Fix the beam path (input: component list → output: beam-path sequence)
   Trace the light in order, from source to detector: source → slit → lens → mirror → screen. Write it as a numbered sequence before drawing anything — this is the spine of the diagram. For each interaction, note what the light does: passes straight through, converges, diverges, reflects at a stated angle, or splits. If the path branches (a beam splitter, a prism spreading wavelengths), list each branch separately so none gets dropped.
3. Lay out the bench (input: beam-path sequence → output: top-view layout)
   Draw the top view first: a horizontal rail as the baseline, components placed along it at their stated distances, rays drawn as straight lines with arrowheads showing direction. Keep one consistent direction of travel — left to right — unless the setup genuinely folds back on itself. Use standard symbols: a lens as a vertical line with arrowheads at the ends (outward for converging, inward for diverging), a mirror as a thick line with hatching on the back, a source as a small lamp or aperture symbol.
4. Label everything (input: layout → output: labeled diagram)
   Every component gets a label with its name and its key value ("Converging lens, f = 10 cm"). Every ray gets a label where it changes ("reflected ray", "refracted ray"). Mark the optical axis as a dashed line, mark focal points with F and 2F where they matter, and add a scale bar or a distance annotation between components. A diagram with unlabeled rays forces the reader to guess which line is which — the labels are the diagram.
5. Check against reality (input: labeled diagram → output: verified diagram)
   Compare the finished diagram against the real bench or the experiment's stated numbers: do the distances match, does the ray through the focal point actually behave as drawn, is anything mirrored or flipped? Read the diagram backwards, from detector to source, as a second check — a layout error that survives a forward read often shows up in reverse. Fix the drawing, not the physics: if the rays don't behave as drawn, the setup description is wrong somewhere, and the diagram just found it.

Aperçu du modèle

Optical Bench Diagram — Setup Template

One diagram, one setup. List the components before drawing anything.

Experiment

Title: {experiment name} Purpose: {what this setup demonstrates or measures} Top view / side view: {top view is the default; note side view if needed}

Component list

Estimated values (flagged, not hidden): {value + why it's an estimate}

Beam path (numbered, source → detector)

1. {source} → {next component}: {what the light does}
2. {component} → {next component}: {what the light does}
3. {branch, if any}: {component} → {detector}: {what the light does}

Diagram checklist

[ ] Rail baseline drawn, left-to-right beam travel

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