Visible Light
Light, Sound and Waves

It's partly in the mind (seeing)

Teaching Guidance for 11-14 Supporting Physics Teaching

A small disagreement about colour

David: I wonder if we see all colours as the same?

David: Green to you might be red to me, even through we both call it green.

Sam: Ridiculous!

David: OK, what colour is that rock?

Sam: Blue.

David: Wrong!

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Colours of two kinds - Teaching and learning issues

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Light, Sound and Waves Supporting Physics Teaching

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Adding beams of light

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Classroom Activity 11-14

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Students generally do not intuitively recognise white light is a mixture of colours of light

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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Some students believe light has different modes or kinds and sometimes even that these different 'kinds' of light in different circumstances can behave differently

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Students make differing psychological associations with light which they may use to explain its nature or origin

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