The Physics Teaching Podcast

The Joy of Simple Things (Colour and Light)

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A short chat about the joy of teaching classic ideas with simple props like light boxes, mirrors and lenses.

Light boxes

Now we’d better get back to that CAG marking.

Links
  • Colour and Colour Filters (YouTube – Physics Online)
  • Feynman and a mirror (YouTube)
  • Sorry, at the time of publishing we can’t find a link for the official jelly lens stuff, but here is how to make lenses with normal jelly.
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Music
  • Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
  • Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
  • Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
  • Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
  • Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.

    • The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License

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