Radio (Chapter 43)
- The Science of Radio: With MATLAB and Electronics Workbench Demonstrations(2nd ed.) by Paul J.
Nahin (Sprinter, 2001). - The Electronics of Radioby David Rutledge (Cambridge, 1999).
- The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communicationsis published in a new edition each year by the Ameri-
can Radio Relay League, which is the association of radio amateurs in the United States: http://www.arrl.org. - The Xtal Set Society (http://www.midnightscience.com) is a society devoted to crystal ra-
dios. They have a number of kits and publications, and issue a newsletter.
Optics (Part IV)
- Optics(4th ed.) by Eugene Hecht (Addison-Wesley, 2001).
A standard undergraduate text on optics. - Principles of Optics(7th ed.) by Max Born and Emil Wolf (Cambridge, 1999).
An advanced, graduate-level book on optics.
Color (Chapter 56)
- Light and Color in Nature and Artby Samuel J. Williamson and Herman Z. Cummins (Wiley, 1983).
An excellent book on color—quite readable, yet contains a lot of technical information. - The Physics and Chemistry of Color(2nd ed.) by Kurt Nassau (Wiley, 2001).
A good undergraduate text on color, somewhat more advanced than the Williamson and Cummins text. - Color Science: Concepts and Methods, Quantitative Data and Formulae(2nd ed.) by G. Wyszecki and
W.S. Stiles (Wiley, 2000).
A standard advanced text on color theory.
The Rainbow (Chapter 57)
- “The Theory of the Rainbow” by H. Moys ́es Nussenzveig,Scientific American, April 1977, 116–127.
- “The Amateur Scientist: How to Create and Observe a Dozen Rainbows in a Single Drop of Water” by
Jearl Walker,Scientific American, July 1977. - “Multiple rainbows from single drops of water and other liquids” by Jearl D. Walker,Am. J. Phys.,
May 1976, 421–433. - The Rainbow: From Myth to Mathematicsby Carl B. Boyer (Princeton, 1987).