Table of Contents:
  • pt. I. Light and Color
  • Some fundamentals: color, light, and interactions
  • pt. II. Color involving vibrations and simple excitations
  • Color produced by incandescence
  • Color produced by gas excitations
  • Color produced by vibrations and rotations
  • pt. III. Color involving ligand field effects
  • Color caused by transition metals in a ligand field
  • Part. IV. Color involving molecular orbitals
  • Color in organic molecules
  • Charge transfer color
  • pt. V. Color involving band theory
  • Color in metals and semiconductors
  • Color centers
  • pt. VI. Color involving geometrical and physical optics
  • Dispersive refraction and polarization
  • Scattering and nonlinear effects
  • Interference and diffraction
  • pt. VII. Color-related topics
  • Colorants of many types
  • Vision, luminescence, lasers, and related topics
  • App. A. Units, Chromaticity, and Color order systems
  • App. B. Incandescence equations
  • App. C. Atoms and simple molecules
  • App. D. Crystal fields, ligand fields, and molecular orbitals
  • App. E. Band theory
  • App. F. Prism, thin film, and layer diffraction grating
  • App. G. Recommendations for additional reading
  • Index.