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SETT Exhibition,
Glasgow Science Centre, September 2004
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Larger pic of testimonies about Complementary ColoursISE 5-14 website – What’s it got for you? - Notes - Powerpoint (3 Mb)

WOW - See Gregor Steele's article in the Times Ed. Scotland about the SSERC seminar at SETT 2004
Access graphic on the right for a bigger pic of what some have said about the SETT 2004 seminar.

Chemi-luminescence demonstrations

Six inch and four inch Glow Sticks used can be purchased from the Glow Company:-http://www.theglowcompany.co.uk/
4
 inch glowsticks pack of 25 @£11.99
6 inch glowsticks pack of  25 @£16.99
1.5 inch glowsticks pack of 30 @ 9.99
For Luminol experiment - see Bulletin 157 .... Chemiluminescence Rainbow link

Light on Life’: Biofluorescence and Bioluminescence demonstrations

Biofluorescence:   Green Fluorescent protein kits from Bio-Rad Laboratories
                                 pGLO bacterial transformation kit: Cat No: 166-003EDU
                                 Green Fluorescent Protein chromatography kit: Cat No: 166 – 005EDU

Bioluminescence: enquiries about the bacterium Photobacterium phosphoreum and/or the practical protocol should be directed to Kath Crawford or Anne Adams

List of physics exhibits based on a theme
Select any link below for photo, apparatus, experiment/demo & published info

Dispersion of light with a white light Lumiled source

Dispersion of light with a white light Lumiled source.
 

Indoors rainbow with LSD and a prism Indoors rainbow with a white light Lumiled source and spherical flask of water Indoors rainbow with white light Lumiled source and a raft of glass spheres

Sodium absorption spectrum with a white light Lumiled source

Colour mixing with RGB Lumileds Colour mixing with LEDs Colour mixing using ping pong balls as the mixer and diffuser – Complementary colours Colour mixing using ping pong balls as the mixer and diffuser – Perception of yellow

Colour mixing with different LED sources and binary counter

Colour mixing with coloured LED radiation in a tank of water Colour mixing with coloured LED radiation in tank of water

Colour mixing with spinning wheel
(Newton’s disc)

Surface coloration

 What colour is a banana?

Lasers: Newton’s rings

Lasers: ray optics - Rainbow formation

Lasers: ray optics Lasers

LED spectral source

UV LEDs

Entrapment of light in a flow of water pouring from a spout by total internal reflection
(Tyndall’s expt.)

Reflection of laser beam in water Production of flashes of light triggered by background radioactivity

 


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