Physics in the Arts, Third Edition offers new, quantitative descriptions of color that are different and unique. Tactics included work for the color mixing of lights and paints, both quantitatively and predictively. Suitable for a course on sound and light for non-science majors, this completely updated text covers light waves, reflection and refraction, lenses, the human eye, photography, color and color vision, additive and subtractive color mixing, structural color, sound waves, simple harmonic motion, damping and resonance, vibration of strings, waves in pipes, superposition, Fourier analysis, and more.

This book provides artists, humanists and liberal arts students with an engaging exploration of the physics of light and sound, particularly with regard to color and music.

• Offers an alternative route to science literacy for those interested in the visual arts, music and photography
• Includes a new and unique quantitative encoding approach to color vision, additive and subtractive color mixing, a simplified approach to quantitative digital photography, and information on how the ear-brain system works as a Fourier analyzer
• Provides online, updated instructor resources, including labs, chapter image banks, practice problems and solutions