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Originally Posted by Aurel
I am afraid that any experiment will be inconclusive, because the amount of light emited by all sources you have access to varies with wavelength. So you will see that the amount of light absorbed by various colors varies, but you will never know for sure if it is because the absorption coeffcient of the color is different or because the amount of light emitted at the wavelength the color absorbs is different than for another color.
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That is the exact type of issues that I'm afraid of. Fortunately her teacher is cool and he is more concerned with the students experimenting and being interested in learning than producing the most accurate results. I figure that we will conduct a couple different experiments using the ideas that everyone has given me in this thread and compare the results.
Thanks,
Shawn