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Light and Color Lab

By Science

Mix colored light, bend beams, and uncover the science behind glowing materials, shimmering bubbles, and clever optical filters.

Light and Color Lab

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  1. Light spreads after passing through a very narrow slit, rather than traveling only straight ahead. What is this wave behavior called?
  2. What produces the shifting colors seen in white light reflected from a thin soap bubble?
  3. Unpolarized light passes through two ideal linear polarizing filters with nothing between them. At what angle between their transmission axes is no light transmitted?

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