The Joy of Simple Things (Colour and Light)

The Physics Teaching Podcast

A short chat about the joy of teaching classic ideas with simple props like light boxes, mirrors and lenses.

Light boxes

Now we’d better get back to that CAG marking.

Links

• Colour and Colour Filters (YouTube – Physics Online)
• Feynman and a mirror (YouTube)
• Sorry, at the time of publishing we can’t find a link for the official jelly lens stuff, but here is how to make lenses with normal jelly.

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Music

• Season 7: Physics Is Our Business by Miracles of Modern Science.
• Seasons 5 and 6: Crescents by Ketsa.
• Seasons 3 and 4: Disco Sheik by Podington Bear.
• Seasons 1 and 2: One legged equilibrist polka by Circus Homunculus.
• Occasionally we also use Cantina Rag by Jackson F. Smith.

The music is used under the Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 International License

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