Light & Optics Demos
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each demo.
Geometrical Optics
Diffraction
Interference
Color
- Color Disk
- Additive colors with red, green and blue light bulbs & shadow formation (in Box on Optics shelves)
- Color absorption and how it relates to apparent color of objects: red, green
laser plus different colored filters (ditto)
Polarization
Modern Optics
Miscellaneous
- Ultraviolet light source and UV color changing beads plus UV transparent/opaque
plastics
- IR camera for viewing objects in apparent darkness
- Focus IR from a space heater witrh Fresnel lens to form "hot spot"
you can feel with a hand
- Plasma ball (shows light as discharge occurs)
- Phosphorescent sheets (reemits light after light is shone on it)
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