Color Physics @Hampshire, Day 4

Day 4 consisted of wrapping up the discussion of HSB, introducing the RGB model, and setting the groundwork for the upcoming discussion of physics.

• Review of of Hue, Saturation, and Brightness 
  • HSB cylinder
• Additive color mixing: We organized our observations of mixing of colored light from the previous class and introduced the RGB color model.
  • Primary colors in additive mixing
  • Complementary colors in the additive system
  • RBG color model
  • RGB cube

• Measurement in physics:
  • What is science?
  • Units and unit conversions
  • Scientific notation and orders of magnitude. We watched Powers of Ten to get a better sense of what different powers of ten mean in terms of different scales, so that we can assess our answers to numerical problems.

Other Resources: A student pointed me to an interactive catalog of objects of a vast range of sizes, organized by powers of ten http://htwins.net/scale2/