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“…Photographic Qualities of Light and the Role of Filters -- The Photographic Qualities of Light -- Intensity -- Contrast -- Color Temperature -- The Kelvin Scale -- The Color Temperature of Photographic Lighting -- Reproduction of Color in Black and White -- Complementary Colors -- How Light Is Perceived -- Infrared Light -- The Many Forms of Natural Light -- Sunlight -- Sunrise/Sunset -- Twilight -- Fog, Mist, and Snow -- Filtering Techniques for Natural Light -- Artificial Lighting -- Household Tungsten Lighting -- Fluorescent Lighting -- Theatrical and Commercial Lighting -- Mixed Lighting -- The Importance of Neutral Areas -- Color Casts -- Where Do They Come From? …”
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“…Finding rotational kinetic energy on a ramp -- Can't stop this: angular momentum -- Conserving angular momentum -- Satellite orbits: a conservation-of-angular momentum example -- Springs'n'things: simple harmonic motion: -- Bouncing back with Hooke's law -- Stretching and compressing springs -- Pushing or pulling back: the spring's restoring force -- Getting around to simple harmonic motion -- Around equilibrium: examining horizontal and vertical springs -- Catching the wave: a sine of simple harmonic motion -- Finding the angular frequency of a mass on a spring -- Factoring energy into simple harmonic motion -- Swinging with pendulums -- Part 5: -- Laying Down The Laws Of Thermodynamics: -- Turning up the heat with thermodynamics: -- Measuring temperature -- Fahrenheit and Celsius: working in degrees -- Zeroing in on the Kelvin scale -- Heat is on: thermal expansion -- Linear expansion: getting longer -- Volume expansion: taking up more space -- Heat: going with the flow (of thermal energy) -- Getting specific with temperature changes -- Just a new phase: adding heat without changing temperature -- Here, take my coat: how heat is transferred: -- Convection: letting the heat flow -- Hot fluid rises: putting fluid in motion with natural convection -- Controlling the flow with forced convection -- Too hot to handle: getting in touch with conduction -- Finding the conduction equation -- Considering conductors and insulators -- Radiation: riding the (electromagnetic) wave -- Mutual radiation: giving and receiving heat -- Blackbodies: absorbing and reflecting radiation -- In the best of all possible worlds: the idea gas law: -- Digging into molecules and moles with Avogadro's number -- Relating pressure, volume, and temperature with the ideal gas law -- Forging the ideal gas law -- Working with standard temperature and pressure -- Breathing problem: checking your oxygen -- Boyle's and Charles's laws: alternative expressions of the ideal gas law -- Tracking ideal gas molecules with the kinetic energy formula -- Predicting air molecule speed -- Calculating kinetic energy in an ideal gas -- Heat and work: the laws of thermodynamics: -- Thermal equilibrium: getting temperature with the Zeroth law Conserving energy: the first law of thermodynamics -- Calculating with conservation of energy -- Staying constant: isobaric isochoric, isothermal, and adiabatic processes -- Flowing from hot to cold: the second law of thermodynamics -- Heat engines: putting heat to work -- Limiting efficiency: Carnot says you can't have it all -- Going against the flow with heat pumps -- Going cold: the third (and absolute last) law of thermodynamics -- Part 5: -- Part Of Tens: -- Ten physics heroes: -- Galileo Galilei -- Robert Hooke -- Sir Isaac Newton -- Benjamin Franklin -- Charles-Augustin de Coulomb -- Amedeo Avogadro -- Nicolas Leonard Sadi Carnot -- James Prescott Joule -- William Thomson (Lord Kelvin) -- Albert Einstein -- Ten wild physics theories: -- You can measure a smallest distance -- There may be a smallest time -- Heisenberg says you can't be certain -- Black holes don't let light out -- Gravity curves space -- Matter and antimatter destroy each other -- Supernovas are the most powerful explosions -- Universe starts with the big bang and ends with the gnab big -- Microwave ovens are hot physics -- Is the universe made to measure? …”