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White Noise
White noise is noise whose amplitude is constant throughout the audible frequency range. It is fairly easy to produce white noise - it is often produced by a random noise generator in which all ...
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Newton's prism experiments
A description of the dispersion and recombination of white light by prisms with some historical detail. You can manipulate virtual prisms in and out of a white beam of light (shown as yellow).
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White Dwarf Star
When the triple-alpha process in a red giant star is complete, those evolving from stars less than 4 solar masses do not have enough energy to ignite the carbon fusion process and so becomme White ...
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Colored Shadows - Shadows are not all black and white
When two different-coloured lights shine on the same spot on a white screen, the light reflecting from that spot to your eyes is called an additive mixture because it contains the colours from both ...
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Polarization of light
This wave diagram shows the effect of rotating two polarizers on an incident beam of white light. Includes a thorough description.
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Prism refraction
This colourful ray diagram shows the dispersion of white light by an equilateral triangle prism. The angle of incidence and width of beam are variable. The explanation is very brief.
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Snowflakes and snow crystals
Hoping for a white Christmas? This site reveals the secrets of snowflakes, ice crystals, and all things frosty.
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Scattering of light in the atmosphere
Find out how light scattering makes the sky blue and clouds white.
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Laptop Screens
You can think of the laptop screen as made up of a lot of tiny cells. White light coming from behind the screen passes through each cell and emerges toward you as you watch the screen.
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Chandrasekhar Limit
The calculation of the maximum mass of 1.44 solar masses for a white dwarf was done by Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar on a ship on the way from India to England to begin graduate study in physics at ...
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