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Newton's Color Wheel

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This apparatus demonstrates the discovery made by Newton that light is composed of seven colors. When the wheel rotates very fast, the eye can't distinguish between individual stripes and is perceived as white.

Contributed by: Enrique Zeleny (March 2011)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA

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