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The Physics Teacher -- February 2001 -- Volume 39, Issue 2, pp. 123

Color mixing via polarization

A. Alan Middleton and Samuel Sampere

Department of Physics, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York 13244

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The investigation of light and vision are central to physics and important to building an understanding of technology. We describe an arrangement for a demonstration challenge that requires knowledge of polarization and color theory to predict the outcome. By rotating a single polarizer, the color of a ball varies from red through yellow to green.

© 2001 American Association of Physics Teachers

KEYWORDS and PACS

Keywords

physics, teaching, laboratory techniques, student experiments, colour displays, light polarisation, inference mechanisms, laser beams, optical filters, color mixing, light, rays, waves

PACS

  • 01.50.Pa

    Laboratory experiments and apparatus

  • 42.25.Ja

    Polarization

  • 42.66.Ne

    Color vision: color detection, adaptation, and discrimination

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0031-921X (print)  

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Digital Object Identifier
http://dx.doi.org/10.1119/1.1355174

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