Kaiser Science Light Resources

• Additive color: Making colors by mixing beams of light

• Subtractive color: Making colors with dyes, inks, markers, chemicals, etc.

• Iridescence: color created by wave interference with tiny physical structures

• Light: Geometric optics

• Light: Optical instruments (geometric optics)

• Eyes and optics

• Ray tracing for convex and concave lenses

• Light: the wave nature of light

• Electromagnetic spectrum

• How can we see photos taken in UV, Infrared or Radio?

• MCAS light and optics practice problems

• Here’s where it gets fun (“enrichment”)

• Eclipses: Understanding them with geometric optics

• Physics of sunsets, and the green flash

• What colors of light do plants use?

• Rainbows

• Rainbow reflections: Rainbows are not Vampires

• Mirages and the Fata Morgana

• China’s Floating City – Was this a real mirage, a misinterpretation of a reflection, or a hoax?

• Poisson spot and Fresnel diffraction – and the greatest mistake in the history of physics

• Why is the sky blue?