TEACHING LIGHT AND COLOR
Edited by Thomas D. Rossing and Christopher J. Chiaverina. This collection of scientific papers, articles and brief excerpts from books is intended to provide teachers with source material for teaching light and color. It also contains references to some 281 books, papers and websites.
BOOK SUMMARY:
This collection of scientific papers, articles, and brief excerpts from books and journals is intended to provide teachers with source material for teaching light and color. It also contains references to some 281 books, papers and websites.
It is hoped that this reprint material will be useful in several different types of courses. Light and color are two of the more popular topics in most general physics courses. Many high school teachers are now beginning the study of physics with light, which their students find understandable and attractive. Students often find laboratory experiments dealing with light and color to be more enjoyable and memorable than others experiments in the general physics course.
We have found the study of light to be an especially attractive road to science literacy for students who think they have little interest in physics. A textbook, Light Science, by the same two authors, is being adopted as a textbook for general education courses particularly aimed at students in the visual arts. It is possible for a painter to learn, by endless trial and error, how to combine pigments in a way that is pleasing to the eye. But how much better to learn about additive and subtractive mixing and how they eye perceives and interprets color.
We hope that the teachers and students will enjoy reading these articles as much as we have enjoyed assembling them, and that they will be motivated to read many other articles suggested in the resource letter, and then to pursue the subject on their own.
