Exploratorium

Includes index.

How to use this book -- Tool kit -- A word for parents -- About the Exploratorium -- Basics of light. What is light? -- How light behaves -- Seeing is believing -- Exploring light. Go on a light walk -- The rad shadow sketch -- Colored shadows -- Shadowbox theater -- Backyard rainbows -- RED -- Spectroscopes inspect light -- Bubbles' incre-dubble colors! -- Never dreary color theory -- Reveal secret messages -- ORANGE -- Unpack black with color chromatography -- See colors spin in a black-and-white disk -- The mesmerizing picture mixer -- Up periscope! -- Double your fun with hinged mirrors -- See infinity in a kaleidoscope -- YELLOW -- Hat trick -- Unflip your face! -- Wander an amazing funhouse of mirrors -- Catch light in a box -- Transform your art with a mystery mirror -- GREEN -- Trap your shadow with phosphorescence -- Bend a saber of laser light! -- Phenomenal polarized phun -- Bend light (and your mind!) through a lens -- Surprising lenses -- Hang out in a giant camera obscura -- BLUE -- Make sunprints -- Solar-powered scribblling machine -- Rainbow in a bottle -- INDIGO -- Catch rainbows with a CD -- The glow show -- Paint with light! -- Power up LEDs -- VIOLET.