Syllabus Fall 1997

Syllabus for Fall 1997

week	topic	reading	lab
1	Intro to the course: Unity of science and the study of color	SE 136Lucretius I, About Lucretius	---
2	Unity of science	OpticksAbout Newton	Newton's Opticks
	Newton's optics
	Lucretius & a scientific world view
3	How does a prism really work?	SE 72Vision of Color & Pattern	3-Ring Color Circus
	Color mixing: intro to color
	Newton, color mixing, and human vision
4	Color naming	Colorblind painterVision handouts	What you see is what you get
	Vision
	Color vision
5	Making a color image from black & white photos	SE 187–194, 208, 212	There's more to this than meets the eye (Albers)
	Visual processing and the brain
	Brain and vision
6	Properties of waves: demonstrations	SE 70–79, 84–89 Huygens, Young	Waves
	Light as a wave
	Waves
7	---	SE 66, 68, 216–223	Fields and circuits
	---
	Electricity & Magnetism
8	Einstein	EinsteinSE 138	Photoelectric effect
	The photoelectric effect, or Einstein invents the photon
	Light as photons
9	Fall colors	SE 149–155	Leaf pigments
	Photosynthesis
	Light and life
10	TBA	Photosynthesis handouts	Secret life of spinach
	Photosynthesis
	TBA
11	TBA	SE 58, 60	Photosynthesis projects
	Photosynthesis

12	TBA	SE 102–109	Characteristic emissions
	Atomic structure
	TBA
13	TBA	SE 66, 70, 76, 138	Thanksgiving break---
	Atomic structure
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14	TBA	SE 110, 112, 114, 120, 122, 130	Characteristic absorptions
	X-ray diffraction
	TBA
15	TBA	handouts	X-ray diffraction
	Summing up: philosophy of science
	TBA

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