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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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Coloured objects in different coloured beams

Here you can draw together ideas about apparent colours, depending on the illumination.

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Colours in a television

To reinforce that the combination of different coloured beams of light can produce any colour. It can be used as a homework.

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Pulse oximeters

Pulse oximeters use red and infra-red light to monitor pulse rate and the oxygenation of a patient’s blood.

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Misconceptions
RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Some students depict light around sources with short lines

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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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RESEARCH REVIEW Light, Sound and Waves

Many students have vague ideas about what light is as they have not been given accurate, age-appropriate definitions, or have been given conflicting definitions

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