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The Colors of a Soap Film

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A physics blog post explaining why soap films display bands of color, deriving the reflected spectrum as a cosine in 1/λ from the Fresnel coefficients and showing how thin-film interference plus CIE color-matching functions determine the perceived color at each thickness.

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