Skip to content

Blog
About
Contact Us
Email Newsletter

Thin Film Colors

Written by

in

The colors of a bubble come from wave interference across a thin film.

But the way that colors add and subtract in interference means that only some colors can appear.

The only way to get pure colors like red is by viewing a bubble in purely red light.

←Physics Girl Cavitation

Pythagorean Siphon→

More posts

“Sunny Seaweed Surf”
May 29, 2026
AI-Based Weather Forecasting Has Blind Spots
May 28, 2026
Blue Jewels and Gray Haze
May 27, 2026
Predicting Volcanic Eruptions
May 26, 2026

FYFD

Celebrating the physics of all that flows

Blog
About
Contact Us
Email Newsletter

Twenty Twenty-Five

Designed with WordPress