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LIGHT AND COLORSYLLABUS

• CYNTHIA MARTONE
• JAMES C. LOPRESTO

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INTRODUCTION

• Quiz every Thursday
• Labs (class exercises)
• Power Point Presentations (30 minutes)
• Final Exam (as Scheduled)

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POWER POINT TOPICS

• Telescopes
• Cameras
• Lasers
• Holograms
• Stimulated Emission
• The Interferometer
• Color Science
• Microscopes
• Black Body Radiation
• The Green Flash
• Rainbows, Halos and Sundogs
• Total Internal Reflection
• The Solar Spectrum
• The Pinhole Camera
• The Human Eye
• Corrective Procedures for Improving Eyesight
  (Glasses, contacts, sunglasses, surgical
  corrections)

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Introduction to Subject Matter

• LIGHT (Packet of Energy, photon)
• FOUR FORCES IN NATURE (Strong Nuclear gluon,
  Electromagnetic photon, Weak Nuclear
  Intermediate Vector Bosons, Gravity Graviton
  (gravity waves)
• LIGHT (wave and massless particle

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Inverse Square Law of Light

• Light Sources look dimmer the farther away they
  are
• Intensity 1/ (distance)2
• Standard Candles

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COLOR?

• Physical
• Physiological
• Psychological
• THE VIVID SOLAR SPECTRUM!!!!

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LIST OF COLOR BANDS Electromagnetic Radiation

• GAMMA RAYS
• X-RAYS
• ULTRAVIOLET
• VISIBLE
• INFRARED
• MICROWAVE
• RADIO

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VISIBLE BAND COLORS

• VIOLET
• (INDIGO)
• BLUE
• GREEN
• YELLOW
• ORANGE
• RED
• color blindness?

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NATURAL WORLD EMITS ALL WAVELENGTHS

• Effects of Light on Humans (radiation)
• Gamma Rays (deadly)
• X-Rays (deadly)
• UV (suntan, sunburn)
• IR ( skin can detect IR)
• Microwaves and Radio Waves
• Long Term exposure, Cell phones and Power
  Lines?

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COMBINATION OF COLORS

• (NOT COLORS IN SCIENTIFIC SENSE)
• pink!!!!
• brown
• black
• white
• many others!!!!!!

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COLOR SCIENCE

• ADDING COLORS
• SUBTRACTING COLORS
• COLOR WHEELS
• COLOR ORGANIZATION AND SCHEMES

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Wavelength and Frequency

• Wavelength
• Frequency
• Speed of Light
• c ? ? wavelength x frequency
• sometimes frequency denoted by f

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WAVES

• Transverse Waves
• Water Waves
• Wave Properties, wavelength, frequency
• Longitudinal Waves
• Sound Waves

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Maxwell Equations of Electromagnetic Theory

• Maxwells Equations
• Spatial variation of the electric field is equal
  to the temperal variation of the magnetic field.
• Spactial variation of the magnetic field is equal
  to the temperal variation of the electric field
• The divergence of the magnetic field is zero (no
  magnetic poles)
• The divergence of the electric field is 4p?
  (there are electric charges)

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Maxwells Equations

• Maxwell's Equations
• I. Gauss' law for electricity II. Gauss' law for
  magnetism III. Faraday's law of induction IV.
  Ampere's law

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SIMPLE OPTICS

• Refraction
• http//id.mind.net/zona/mstm/physics/light/rayOpt
  ics/refraction/refraction1.html
• http//www.ps.missouri.edu/rickspage/refract/refra
  ction.html
• Snells Law
• Lenses
• Aperture
• Optical Axis
• Focal Length
• http//freespace.virgin.net/gareth.james/virtual/O
  ptics/Lens/lens.html
• Inverted Image
• Aberrations
• Spherical Aberration
• Chromatic Aberration
• Coma

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REFRACTING TELESCOPES

• Eyepieces
• Famous Examples
• Speed of Telescope Optics
• F-ratio

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REFLECTION

• Mirrors
• Aberrations
• Reflecting Telescopes
• Famous Examples
• Various Designs and Foci
• Adaptive Optics

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SPECTROSCOPY

• PRISM
• DISPERSION
• GRATINGS
• SPECTROSCOPES
• SPECTROGRAPHS
• Littrow Spectrograph
• Cyrney-Turner Spectrograph
• FOURIER SPECTROSCOPY

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THE HUMAN EYE

• The Cornea
• The Pupil
• The Lens
• The Retina
• Near Sighted
• Far Sighted
• Astigmatism

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THE CAMERA

• Photographic Emulsion
• Digital Imagery and Cameras
• Camera Designs
• Porro Prisms
• FOCAL LENGTHS
• F-RATIOS and F-STOPS

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Other Optical Instruments

• Magnifying Glass
• Microscopes
• Binoculars
• Periscopes
• Telephoto Lens
• Fiber Optics
• Thin Films
• Polarizers

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ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION

• Max Planck and the Photon
• Weins Displacement Law
• Black Body Radiation (perfect radiators)
• Radiation Curve for the Sun

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THE SOLAR SPECTRUM

• CONTINUUM
• ABSORPTION LINES
• EMISSION LINES
• LINE PROFILES
• FLASH SPECTRUM
• WEBSITES for SOLAR SPECTRA

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INTEFERENCE AND DIFFRACTION

• INTERFERENCE
• DIFFRACTION

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QUANTUM OPTICS

• ATOMS AND LIGHT
• ENERGY LEVELS
• BOHR MODEL OF ATOM
• NARROW WAVELENGTH BANDS PRODUCED BY ATOMS
• STIMULATED EMISSION

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COLORS IN NATURE

• aurora
• colors in nature (other than the atmosphere)
• eclipses
• planetary nebulae filtered images
• reflection and flourencent nebulae

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LASERS

• Ruby Lasers
• Helium-Neon Lasers

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HOLOGRAMS

• Three dimensional images

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FOURIER OPTICS

• INTEROMETERS
• FOURIER OPTICS