TWO | Color & Light Flashcards
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The visible light occupies
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a tiny part of the electromagnetic spectrum.
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When the frequency of light wave matches the natural vibrational frequency of atoms in a material, light wave is
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either absorbed or scattered around Resonance occurs and atoms start to vibrate with the large amplitude => they collide with each other a lot => they \"waste\" energy of the light wave => light wave dies out which means it's absorbed.
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Different colors of light correspond to different
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frequencies of light waves emitted by an electron in an atom and with a little knowledge of quantum mechanics you can understand that this frequency corresponds to the difference in energy values of an electron on two different orbits in an atom: the electron coming down from the higher to the lower orbit emits light of particular frequency.
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If normal person looks at the red petals of a rose, the color of light he is seeing is
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red
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The color of an opaque object is the same as the color of the light that is
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reflected by it Opaque object doesn't pass the light through it. It absorbs part of incident light and reflects the other part. The frequency of the light wave reflected by the object will provide this object with the color (corresponding to the frequency of the reflected light wave: lowest frequency = red, highest frequency = violet).
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If sunlight were green instead of white, the most comfortable color to wear on a hot day would be
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green For green-colored opaque object reflects only... GREEN light! Therefore, if no other components rather than green is present in the sunlight, no light (and energy) will be absorbed, but rather reflected.
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The worst thing you can do for the health of a green-leafed plant is to illuminate it with only
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green light. for the green leaf will reflect 100 % of the incident light if this light contains green component only. Therefore, it will not absorb any energy, thus lacking energy for its growth.
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The color of a transparent object is the same as the light that is
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transmitted The object transparent for the light wave of particular frequency has a pigment in it that will absorb the light waves of all frequencies except for the light wave of this particular frequency that it will TRANSMIT through. The transmitted part of the light wave will provide this object with the color (corresponding to the frequency of the transmitted light wave).
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Light of what color is transmitted by a piece of blue glass?
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blue
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A new red dress looks more expressive (red color is intensified) under
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Incandescent lamp red looks more intense when illuminated by incandescent lamp. Light from incandescent lamp has more intensity in the red part of visible light range, therefore intensifying red colors.
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The solar radiation spectrum is
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a plot of brightness of sunlight versus its frequency. Solar radiation spectrum shows how intensity (brightness) of different light waves comprising the sunlight DEPENDS on their frequency.
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The solar radiation spectrum has the highest intensity in... (Hint: of what color is the brightest light emitted by the sun?)
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yellow-green part of the spectrum It corresponds to the peak in light intensity in solar spectrum.
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Light of what color our vision is most sensitive to?
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yellow-green for this is the brightest region in sunlight spectrum.
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The primary additive colors are
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red, blue, green. These are the main colors of the solar radiation spectrum that can be ADDED together to obtain any other color!.
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The colored dots that make up the color on a TV screen are
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red, blue and green
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If light beams of three primary colors shine on a wall they produce
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a white spot They all add to white color. Using color algebra: R + G + B = W.
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Complementary colors are two colors that
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produce white light when added together. that's why they are called complementary. Example: M + G = W.
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Magenta light is a mixture of
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red and blue light
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A sheet of red paper will look black when illuminated with
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cyan light. Cyan light has no red in it (cyan and red are complementary colors, or cyan = green + blue). Therefore, no light wave is reflected if the incident light has no red component in it (red paper can reflect ONLY RED light).
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If sunlight were green instead of white, the most comfortable color to wear on a cold day would be
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magenta Magenta paint reflects light waves of all colors except for... GREEN! Why? Because magenta is complementary color to green (M + G = W), green light doesn't contain any magenta component in it: Therefore, it ABSORBS green, and if the sunlight is all green, magenta clothes do not reflect any light back, it absorbs 100 %.
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The yellow clothes of a stage performer can be made to look black if illuminated only by light that is
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blue Blue and yellow are complementary colors, that means they do not reflect each other. Therefore, yellow clothes will not reflect blue light at all, so it will appear as having no color or BLACK.
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Colors seen on TV result from color
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addition
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Colors seen on the cover of your physics book result from color
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subtraction
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How many colors of ink are used to print full-color pictures?
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three plus black
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Look at a full-color picture in a magazine with a magnifying glass and you'll see that the inks used are
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magenta, cyan, yellow, and black
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Which interacts more with sounds of relatively high frequencies?
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The smaller the size, the smaller the wavlength of the wave this object can recognize.
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Which interacts more with light of relatively high frequencies?
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small particles Small particles interact with waves of the small wavelength (waves of high frequency)!
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The sky is blue because air molecules in the sky act as tiny
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resonators (tuning forks) which scatter blue light. Molecules have the size comparable to the wavelength of violet and blue light waves, therefore these molecules will interact with light of blue and violet color the most. So they will scatter this light the most and the sky will appear blue (eyes are not very sensitive to violet color).
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Sunsets are red, because
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only the light wave of the long wavelength (that of the red color) \"survives\" scattering.
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The sun appears red at sunset as a result of the
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longer path of air through which sunlight travels before reaching our eyes.
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If we lived on a planet where red light was most scattered in the atmosphere and the blue light was least scattered in the atmosphere, the sky would look
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red and the sunsets blue.
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The whiteness of clouds is evidence of a variety of
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sizes of the cloud molecules. Light waves of all wavelengths (from violet to red) are scattered on all these different particles making the cloud to have all colors at once, which means white color.
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The greenish blue (cyan) color of sea water is evidence for the
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absorption of the light of red color Cyan is the complementary color for red, therefore, if red light is absorbed and other light is reflected, the reflected light will have the color complementary to the red: that of the cyan. Color algebra: W - R = G + B.
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A flag that is red, green, and white is viewed deep beneath the ocean surface via reduced intensity sunlight at that depth. The red, green, and white would likely appear
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black, green, and cyan. for the red part of the flag would have no red component in the sun rays' light to reflect, green would barely make it, and the white part minus red would be cyan.
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The part of the electromagnetic spectrum most absorbed by water is (Hint: as you remember, water absorbs thermal energy very well without increase in its temperature.)
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infrared
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The fact that you can get sunburned while submerged in water is evidence that water
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transmits ultraviolet light
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The fact that you can get sunburned while in the shade is evidence that the air molecules of the atmosphere
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scatter ultraviolet light.
