Color Box
Additive Primaries
Subtractive Primaries
Color Slides
Overhead Projector

 

Diffraction Grating

 

Code Number: 6F10.23

Demo Title: Colors - Additive and Subtractive Primaries

Condition: Excellent

Principle: Primary and Secondary Colors

Area of Study: Optics

Equipment:

Diffraction Grating and Special Transparency Plate with Slit and Slat.

Procedure:

Put the diffraction grating on the head of the overhead projector.  When you put the special transparency plate on the overhead and turn it on you will have a spectrum of the primary colors on the top and the secondary colors directly underneath.

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