Saturday, September 17, 2011

Swimming Pool Floodlight

At my house there is a floodlight aimed at our swimming pool.  Sometimes I turn it on at night when I go out there.  It shines into the pool and onto the cement around it.  The color produced is blue from the pool liner.  As I move towards and away from the edge of the pool the bottom appears be shallower than it really is.  I think this has something to do with the refraction we talked about in class.

The color makes me think about being thirteen years old or so.  I went to a pool at a resort then, and remember the color being very blue in the pool.

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