Optics
6F - Color
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6F 10.10 - Projector with Color Filters and Gratings:
Demonstrates: Spectra shifting with color slides. Description: Spectra will shift when different color slides are projected. |
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6F 10.20 - Von Guericke Effect (Colored Shadows):
Demonstrates: Color perception of the brain. Description: Projectors create a colored square with a "white" center spot. |
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6F 10.30 - Color Mixing:
Demonstrates: Color addition and subtraction. Description: Three projectors with color slide filters are projected so the circles overlap slightly. |
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6F 10.40 - Bidwell's Disk:
Demonstrates: Complimentary colors. Description: When the disk is rotating correctly the red light will appear green. |
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6F 10.50 - Color Wheel and Various Optical Disks with Strobe:
Demonstrates: Optical illusions. Description: Disks are attached to a motor with variable speed control. Shine hand held strobe onto the disk. Color wheel turns gray when spun fast enough. Each wheel has a unique effect. |
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6F 30.10 - Prisms:
Demonstrates: Chromatic dispersion. Description: Source light is broken up into its component parts. |
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6F 40.10 - Bryant's Sunset Effect:
Demonstrates: Refraction of light due to dust particles. Description: A gray projector and an aquarium filled with water. Show class image with clean water then add creamer to show "sunset" on the wall. "Sun's" image will become redder as more creamer is added. |
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6F 40.15 - Bryant's Sunset with Polarizers:
Demonstrates: Scattering effects of sunlight by the atmosphere. Description: Use a Prado slide projector to send light through a water filled aquarium onto wall. |