6F10.25 - Color Wheels

See paragraph one in the procedure section.
See paragraph two in the procedure section.
Code Number:
6F10.25
Demo Title:
Color Wheels
Condition:
Excellent
Principle:
Colors and Spectrum
Area of Study:
Optics

Disclaimer

Equipment:
Color Wheels, DC Motors, Power Supplies, light sticks -- red, blue, and green.
Procedure:

The color wheels may be hooked to a variety of our DC motors using the proper shaft adapters available. The motor used depends on your particular desires. As the speed of the motor is increased the wheel should traverse the colors of the spectrum until you reach a speed where the disk is a creamy white. 

Attach the light sticks to the wheel with some plastic straps.  Snap the light sticks so that they start to glow.  Rotate the wheel and see a nice bright white color produced.  The light sticks will last up to two hours.

References:
  • John Clement,  "Clarifying Confusion",  TPT, Vol. 37, # 6, p. 326, Sept. 1999.
  • Lawrence D. Woolf,  "Comments from Woolf",  TPT, Vol. 37, # 6, p.  326, Sept 1999.
  • Lawrence D. Woolf,  "Confusing Color Concepts Clarified",  TPT, Vol. 37, # 4, p. 204, April 1999.
  • Leonard Parsons,  "As Easy as R, G, B",  TPT, Vol. 36, # 6, p. 347, Sept. 1998. 
  • Richard A. Bartels,  "A Hallway Display of Additive Color Mixing",  TPT, Vol. 24, # 9, p.  565, December 1986.
  • Gordon R. Gore, "A Different Way to Use Newton's Color Wheel", TPT, Vol. 20, # 2, Feb. 1982, p. 101.
  • Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Color Wheel, AJP, Vol. 90, #11, Nov. 2022, p. 860.
  • Thomas B. Greenslade, Jr., "Color Disk", AJP, Vol. 89, #3, March 2021, p. 243.
  • H. L. Armstrong, "Comment on Newton's Inclusion of Indigo in the Spectrum", AJP, Vol. 40, #11, Nov. 1972, p. 1709.
  • George Viernson, "Why Did Newton See Indigo in the Spectrum?", AJP, Vol. 40, # 4, Apr. 1972, p. 526.
  • Oj-2:  Freier and Anderson, A Demo Handbook for Physics.
  • O-710:  "12-in-1, Fan, and Colored Disk",  DICK and RAE Physics Demo Notebook.
  • Neil Ribe and Friedrich Steinle,  "Exploratory Experimentation: Goethe, Land, and Color Theory",  Physics Today, p. 43, July 2002.
  • George M. Hopkins, "New  Chromatrope", Experimental Science, p. 218.
  • George M. Hopkins, "Light", Experimental Science, p. 214.
  • George M. Hopkins', "Newton's Disks", Experimental Science, Volume Two, p. 103.
  • Jodi and Roy McCullough, "Color Mixing with a Color Top and Color Fall", The Role of Toys in Teaching Physics, p. 4.41.
  • Charles Vivian, "All Colors Produce White", Science Experiments & Amusements For Children, p. 54.
  • Borislaw Bilash II, David Maiullo, "Color Addition", A Demo a Day: A Year of Physics Demonstrations, p. 320.
  • Janice VanCleave, "50, Color Wheel", Teaching the Fun of Physics, p. 81.
  • Janice VanCleave,  "Blender",  Physics for Every Kid - 101 Easy Experiments in Motion, Heat, Light, Machines, and Sound,  p. 190-191.

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