indexf4

Page F4 Demo Request Submission Form

If you would like to submit a request for demonstrations for a lecture, please fill in your name and the date & time of the lecture. Then, as you browse the listings, simply check the boxes corresponding to the demos you would like. When you are through making selections, return to this area and select the "Submit Form" button. To cancel the current settings and start over or leave, select the "Reset Form" button.

(Note: This form is only for this page. If you make selections on other pages, please be sure to fill out the corresponding form.)

: Name of Professor/Lecturer

: Date of Lecture
: Time of Lecture
: Date of Preview (If a preview is desired)
: Time of Preview (If a preview is desired)

Additional requests, instructions, or comments:


INDEX F4 : SPECTRA AND COLOR


F4.01 DISPERSION

A prism is used to produce a white light spectrum.

F4.02 PROPERTIES OF A PRISM

Shows that dispersion increases with increasing prism angle and varies with the material of the prism.

F4.03 ADDITIVE LIGHT

Combine blue, red, and green light to produce other colors.

F4.04 SPECTRA

Use a diffraction grating to view the visible light spectrum of various sources such as tungsten and mercury lamps.

F4.05 COLOR DISKS

By rotating different combinations of colored disks, one views various additive colors.

F4.06 COLOR FAN

A fan with four blades painted red, green, blue, and yellow is viewed with a strobe light.

F4.07 WATER PRISM

A plastic triangle filled with water is used to separate white light into its component colors.

F4.08 BUBBLE WAND

A device for producing large soap bubbles, showing the colors produced by interference.

F4.09 SPECTROMETRY

Chambered cuvettes placed in a slide projector compare the spectrum produced by filters and liquids with that produced by white light.

F4.10 ACHROMATIC PRISM PAIR

One prism separates light into its components and the other re-combines them to demonstrate how careful matching of lenses can correct for chromatic aberration.

Click here to return to the text based index.