March 12

Light and Color

Fourth grade physicists began their first optics lab with this illusion. Stare at the white dot for 30 seconds and then look at a blank wall or ceiling.

Seven colors constitute white light: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. When we turned these colors on the whirligig and with a simple circuit, we saw white!

 

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