S3 colour mixing

We’ve moved from looking at forming a black & white image on a tv screen to creating a colour picture.  I found a clever simulation that may help you to understand how coloured light is produced by mixing together different quantities of the three primary light colours.  Click on the image below to go to the site.  Use the red, green and blue sliders to adjust the colour that the man sees.

S3 How a TV works

one less tv by Kevin Steele
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I showed you a handy site that explains nicely how all the parts of a TV set come together to produce a “moving image” on your screen. You can visit the site yourself by clicking here.

The site covers

  • pixels
  • brightness control
  • moving the spot around the screen to produce an image
  • displaying many separate images per second

how a picture tube works

Today we looked at the way in which a tv set produces a picture.  We used the Maltese cross tube to produce the effect shown in this photograph.

  • Can you explain why there are two shadows of the Maltese cross on the screen?
  • What evidence can you remember from the lesson to justify your explanation?

Then we moved on to the Perrin tube.  This allowed us to scan the electron beam across the painted end of the tube using the magnetic field of two Helmholtz coils.  Here is the video clip we recorded at the time.

raster scan from mr mackenzie on Vimeo.

  • Why is the scanning pattern shown in this video different from the scan used in a tv set?

S3 Colour TV

We’ve been talking about colour tv in class and I found a few items you might want to look at. First of all, the website I used in class is available here and there is further information on combining colours here.

There is also a helpful animation of the shadow mask that stops the three electron beams from reaching the wrong phosphor dots.

shadow mask in a colour tv

S3 – Telecommunications unit tests

Here’s a reminder of the dates we agreed in class for the end of section tests on Telecommunications.

General test – Tuesday 6 February
Credit test – Wednesday 7 February

During the week prior to the tests you will be given some time in class to try questions from previous exams.

How TV works

In the past week, we’ve been looking at picture tubes to see how images are formed in a TV set.  Today we started to look at how a TV produces a colour image.  If you would like to look again at the web page I used in class, you can find it here.