Color Fringes Bordering Black Stripes at the Bottom of a Swimming Pool

• Gonzalo Fuster ^[1] ; Roberto Rojas ^[1] ; Viktor Slüsarenko ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Técnica Federico Santa María
• Localización: The Physics Teacher, ISSN 0031-921X, Vol. 54, Nº. 6, 2016, págs. 354-355
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • We have observed a nice example of chromatic dispersion due to refraction in water, in the form of color fringes bordering the black stripes that exist at the bottom of a swimming pool. Here we give a qualitative description of the phenomenon, explaining the role of the black stripes and the dispersive index of refraction of water.