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Shedding Light on the Subject: Function Models of Light Decay

References

  • Keller, Brian A. (1998). "Shedding Light on the Subject." Mathematics Teacher 91 (9) (December 1998): 756-771.

    Click here for a PDF file of the article or click here for a PDF file of the activity sheets.

  • Bradie, Brian. "Rate of Change of Exponential Functions: A Precalculus Perspective." Mathematics Teacher 91 (March 1998): 224-30, 237.
     
  • Gordon, Howard R., "Can the Lambert-Beer law be applied to diffuse attenuation coefficient of ocean water?" Limnology and Oceanography 34 (August 1989):1389-1409.
     
  • Iavorskii, B. Handbook of Physics. Moscow: Mir Publishers, 1980.
     
  • Lykos, Peter. "The Beer-Lambert Law Revisited: A Development without Calculus." Journal of Chemical Education 69 (September 1992):730-732.
     
  • Perovich, Donald K., "Observations of Ultraviolet Light Reflection and Transmission by First-Year Sea Ice." Geophysical Research Letters 22 (June 1995): 1349-1352.
     
  • Ricci, Robert W., Mauri A. Ditzler, and Lisa P. Nestor. "Discovering the Beer-Lambert Law." Journal of Chemical Education 71 (November 1994):983-985.

Video Segments

  • Experience the Deep (1998). Wilderness Films, Madacy Entertainment Group, PO Box 1445, St. Laurent, Quebec, Canada H4L 4Z1.
     
  • Classroom video segments, Heather Thompson and Brian Keller (2000), Department of Mathematics, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa 50011.
 
 
 
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