Teaching about Color and Color Vision

This publication deals with how the human eye perceives color and how that color perception is triggered by the light sources and objects of our world. The colors of soap bubbles and other thin films are treated in more than usual detail, and the approach is extended to explain the colors of transparent materials sandwiched between polarizers.

A tonic for lagging interest in the spring semester, the resource book incorporates many laboratory activities and demonstrations, including some new ones, important commercial applications, sample questions, and Physics Olympics events.

Other AAPT/PTRA Resource Books:
• Exploring Physics in the Classroom
• The Role of Graphing Calculators in Teaching Physics
• The Role of the Laboratory in Teaching Introductory Physics
• The Role of Toys in Teaching Physics
• Teaching About Cosmology
• Teaching About D.C. Electric Circuits
• Teaching About Electrostatics
• Teaching About Energy
• Teaching About Impulse and Momentum
• Teaching About Kinematics
• Teaching About Lightwave Communications
• Teaching About Magnetism
• Teaching Physics for the First Time