School Physics Notes: Investigating colour and the visible spectrum

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INDEX of revision notes on The visible spectrum and colour

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1. Reminder: Dispersion of light by a prism showing visible spectrum

2. What is colour? selected technical data on visible spectrum colours

3. What do mean by opaque, transparent and translucent materials?

4. Primary and secondary colours explained

5. How the  eye and TV screens work via an RGB system

6. Visible light filters, explaining observed colour of objects subjected to various light colours

7. More on what determines the colour of an object you observe without the screening effect of filters and colours of solutions you come across in chemistry!


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General introduction to the types and properties of waves, ripple tank expts, how to do wave calculations

Illuminated & self-luminous objects, reflection visible light, ray box experiments, ray diagrams, mirror uses

Refraction and diffraction, the visible light spectrum, prism investigations, ray diagrams explained

Electromagnetic spectrum, sources, types, properties, uses (including medical) and dangers

The absorption and emission of radiation by materials - temperature & surface factors including global warming

See also Global warming, climate change, reducing our carbon footprint from fossil fuel burning

Optics - types of lenses (convex, concave, uses), experiments and ray diagrams, correction of eye defects

The visible spectrum of colour, light filters and explaining the colour of objects

Sound waves, properties explained, speed measure, uses of sound, ultrasound, infrasound, earthquake waves

The Structure of the Earth, crust, mantle, core and earthquake waves (seismic wave analysis)

Astronomy - solar system, stars, galaxies and use of telescopes and satellites

The life cycle of stars - mainly worked out from emitted electromagnetic radiation

Cosmology - the Big Bang Theory of the Universe, the red-shift & microwave background radiation


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