Colors
Demos and pictures illustrating EM waves, light, and colors
Measuring light speed: Fizeau–Foucault experiment
Propagation of an electromagnetic wave:
Electromagnetic spectrum:
Wikipedia page
Prism and spectrum
Human eye:
Retina of the eye
Color vision: Raw sensitivity of cones and rods:
Color vision: Cone sensitivity, corrected for cone numbers and eye transparency:
Color vision: Converting cone output into colors:
Thin-film interference:
Last Modified: October 13, 2014.
Vadim Kaplunovsky
vadim@physics.utexas.edu