I created this website in 2008 at the request of Stuart Wilde. He asked me to write the Tolemac Honor Code and take over teaching in 2007, six years before he passed, and we continued to work together providing lectures…
The normal human eye can perceive wavelengths from approximately 380 (violet) to 750 (deep red) nanometers (nm) long, which we know as the visible light spectrum. A nm is equal to one billionth of a meter. The lower the nanometers,…