Visible Light

- Range of EM Spectrum that human can see

- 750 – 300 billionths of a meter
- You can see different wavelength as different
colors
a. Blue is the shortest – high energy
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b. Red is the longest – lowest energy
c. White – If all colors are present

Where does light come from? Dispersion

 Electrons get kicked to different orbit - The different colors of light have different
 This doesn’t happen very often in solar systems, wavelengths, this means they are bent (refracted)
but it does in atoms. by different amounts.
 If you add energy to the atom, it will heat up and
make electrons jump into a higher orbit
 When atom cools, they jump back to their original
orbit
 When the electrons jump from 1 orbit to another,
they emit light.

Light as a Particle

- A photon is a particle, but it has no mass -

- Think of photons as a grain of sand - Each color has different wave lengths (red long,
- When light hits film in a camera, it acts like blue short)
photons -

Light as a Wave

- All light travel in the same speed

- Has wavelength, speed, and frequency

Speed of Light

- Light travels at 300,000,000 m/s

- It takes 8 minutes for the light wave from the sun to -
get to earth
- We see the moon because it reflects the sun’s light
- It takes 1 second from the reflected light of the
moon to reach earth

Light and Matter

- When light hits something, it may be:
1. Transmitted (transparent objects)
2. Reflected or Scattered (off mirror)
3. Absorbed (of a black velvet dress) Recombining Color
4. Often it is a combination
 Additive Primaries of Light
Why do we see the Color of the rainbow? - Blue + Green = Cyan
- Red + Green = Yellow
- Red + Blue = Magenta
- R + G + B = White
Why is the Sky Blue?
Adding Colors

- White light can be split up to make separate colors.

Why is the ocean blue, gray, or green sometimes?
Colors
- White light is made up of many colors
- Rainbow has the colors: ROY G BIV
- White Light is not a single color, it is made up of
the 7 colors of the rainbow
These colors can be added together again.
- The primary colors of light are red, blue, and green:
- By mixing the primary colors (R,G,B), it will
produce secondary colors (Cyan, Yellow, &
Magenta)
- Different in adding/ Mixing Paints
 COLOR)
RED RED NONE RED
GREEN BLACK GREEN NONE(BLAC
K)
BLUE AND RED BLUE RED(APPEA
- RED RS RED;
(MAGENTA) COZ OF
Subtracting/ Extracting Colors
SUBTRACTI
- A complementary color is formed by subtracting a ON IN
primary color from white light. LIGHT
- Every secondary color is the complement of a
primary color
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Additive Vs. Subtractive

Pigment

- A subtractive color process because:

- Colors are formed by absorbing (taking away)
certain frequencies from white light.
- The absence of a reflected light wave appears as
black color.

Seeing Color

- Color of an object appears depending n the color of

light it reflects

Papuntang Object Absorbed Reflected

light wahaha color
ALL GREEN ALL BUT GREEN
GREEN
ALL BLACK ALL NONE(black)
ALL WHITE ALL ALL (WHITE