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Syllabus Fall 1998

*SR = (chapters in) Selected Readings; SE = (pages in) Science Explained; CAS = Color, Art, & Science;
QED = (chapters in) QED.

*Reading assignments will be modified during the semester. Watch for updates.

Date

Topic
 Reading*
Table of Contents for Selected Readings

Lab

9/7

 · Unity of Science and the study of color SE 136

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9/14

 · Lucretius and the scientific world view
· Newton's color theory
· How does a prism really work?		 SE 72; SR I, II, III, IV, V, VII, VIII, X; CAS

Newton's Opticks

9/21

 · Color mixing
· Vision		 SE 136; SR XVIII; CAS

The 3-Ring Color Circus

9/28

 · Visual processing
· Color from black & white		 SE 187-194, 208, 212; SR XIX, XX; CAS

What you see is what you get

10/05

 · Color naming
· Wave Theory of Light		 SE 70-79, 84-89; SR XXI, XXII, IX, XIX; CAS

There's more to this than meets the eye

10/12

 · Electromagnetic Theory of Light SR XI; QED 1

Making Waves

10/19

 · Electricity, magnetism, fields and circuits SE 66, 68; SR XII

Fields & Circuits

10/26

 · Quantum Theory of Light SE 138; SR XIII, XIV, XV, XVI; QED 2

The Photoelectric Effect

11/02

 · Pigments & Dyes
· Atomic structure from a chemist's perspective
· Biological molecules		 SE 95-135; SR XXVI, XXVII, XXVIII, XXIX; CAS

Light and Color in Leaves

11/09

 · Photosynthesis SE 149-161, 58-61; SR XXIII, XXIV, XXV; CAS

Secret Life of Spinach

11/16

 · Atomic structure from a physicist's perspective SE 138-147; QED 3

Group Experiments on Photosynthesis

11/23

 · Atomic structure and color SR XXX; CAS QED 3

(no lab Thanksgiving Break)

11/30

 · Characteristic emission
· Photosynthesis revisited		 SR XXVIII, XXXI; CAS

Characteristic Emissions

12/07

 · What is science, and has it a unity? SR IV, V, VI; CAS

Chemistry of Dyes

12/14

 · Putting it all together SR XXII .


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