Everyday Physics: Colors, Light And Optical Illusions
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Author_Michel A Van Hove
Brain
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CMY Color System
Color
Color Blindness
Color Vision Deficiency
Complementary Colors
Cones of Eye
Creating Color
Cycle of Imaging
Detecting Color
Detecting Light
Diffuse Reflection
Digital Photography
Displaying Color
Electromagnetic Spectrum
Electronic Displays
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Eye
Film Photography
Focusing. Fovea
Frequency of Light
Gamut
HSL Color System
Hue
Human Vision
Imaging
Infrared Light (IR)
Ink Color
Iris of Eye
Laser
Lens of Eye
Light
Light Sources
Luminance
Mental Model
Metamerism
MoirAfA(C) Patterns
Neural Networks
Optical Illusions
Paint Color
Pattern Recognition
Perceived Image
Pixel
Pupil
Rainbows
Recording Images
Reflected Colors
Resolving Power of Eye
Retina
RGB Color System
Rods of Eye
Secondary Rainbow
Shades
Sky Colors
Solar Spectrum
Sources of Light
Spectrum
Specular Reflection
Stereoscopic Vision
Stroboscopic Effect
Sun Color
Sunlight
Tints
Ultraviolet Light (UV)
Vision
Visual Acuity
Wagon-wheel Effect
Wavelength
Waves
White
X-ray Imaging
X-rays
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- ISBN 9789811239311
- Publication Date: 27 Sep 2021
- Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
- Publication City/Country: SG
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book aims to popularize physics by emphasizing conceptual ideas of physics and their interconnections, while avoiding mathematics entirely. The approach is to explore intriguing topics by asking and discussing questions, thereby the reader can participate in developing answers, which enables a deeper understanding than is achievable with memorization.The topic of this volume, 'Colors, light and Optical Illusions', is chosen because we face colors and light every waking minute of our lives, and we experience optical illusions much more often than we realize.This book will attract all those with a curious mind about nature and with a desire to understand how nature works, especially the younger generation of secondary-school children and their teachers.
Michel A Van Hove was born in Belgium. He studied in Switzerland (BA from ETH) and the UK (PhD from Cambridge University), and worked in the Netherlands (Philips Research Labs), Germany (University of Munich), USA (Caltech, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, and University of California at Berkeley and Davis) and Hong Kong (City University, and Baptist University). He retired as Emeritus Chair Professor of Hong Kong Baptist University.
He is a Fellow of the American Physical Society. He was awarded the Ernst Mach Honorary Medal for Merit in the Physical Sciences and the Surface Structure Prize, He is recognized in the World's Top 2% of Scientists.
His mainly theoretical research, in physics, materials science, chemistry, and biology, has focused on the determination of the atomic-scale structure and bonding at solid surfaces and nanostructures. He developed and implemented novel methods of electron scattering theory and computation, such as for nanostructures. He also worked on photoelectron diffraction, scanning tunneling and atomic-force microscopy, a database of solved surface structures, and molecular machines (modelled with total-energy and similar calculations).
He has over 400 publications, including 11 books, with over 20,000 citations and an h-index of 82 (from Google Scholar). He has been on the editorial board of 13 international journals and book series. He has co-organized 102 international scientific conferences.
