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World Coding Color

- The sun emits light of all frequencies but is brightest in the yellow-green part of the spectrum. Our eyes have evolved to be most sensitive to this range. - Red, green, and blue are the additive primary colors. Varying amounts can be added together to form any other color. - Overlapping beams of blue and yellow light produce white light, while overlapping panes of blue and yellow glass transmit little light.

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World Coding Color

- The sun emits light of all frequencies but is brightest in the yellow-green part of the spectrum. Our eyes have evolved to be most sensitive to this range. - Red, green, and blue are the additive primary colors. Varying amounts can be added together to form any other color. - Overlapping beams of blue and yellow light produce white light, while overlapping panes of blue and yellow glass transmit little light.

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Light from the Sun

Physics 10
Color
⇒ The sun emits light of all frequencies.
Slide 1 Slide 6
Slide 2 Slide 7 ⇒ However, the sun is brightest in the yellow-green
Slide 3 Slide 8 part of the spectrum.
Slide 4 Slide 9
Slide 5 ⇒ Our eyes have evolved to be most sensitive in
this range of frequencies.

Additive Primary Colors Additive Primary Colors


⇒ Red, green, and blue are called the additive
primary colors.

red + blue = magenta

red + green = yellow

⇒ Our eyes have three types of cones that detect


blue + green = cyan
light of low (red), medium (green), and high (blue)
frequencies.
⇒ If all three types of cones are stimulated equally, ⇒ Varying amounts of each can be added together
we perceive white light. to form any other color.

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Exercise 20 Exercise 20
Complete the following equations:
Using the figure to
Yellow light + blue light = _______ light.
the left, complete
the following Green light + _______ light = white light.
equations: Magenta + yellow + cyan = ________ light.

⇒ Yellow light + blue light = white light.


Yellow light + blue light = _______ light.
Green light + magenta light = white light.
Green light + _______ light = white light.
Magenta + yellow + cyan = white light.
Magenta + yellow + cyan = ________ light.

Exercise 13 Subtractive Primary Colors


Supposed two flashlight beams are shown on a white ⇒ Mixing colored pigments in paints and dyes is entirely
screen, one beam through a pane of blue glass and different than mixing colors.
the other through a pane of yellow glass. What ⇒ The colors, magenta,
color appears on the screen where the two beams cyan, and yellow are called
overlap? Suppose, instead, that the two panes of the subtractive primary
glass are placed in the beam of the single flashlight. colors.
What then? ⇒ All color photographs in
⇒ The overlapping blue and yellow beams will books are the result of
produce white light. When the two panes of magenta, cyan, and yellow
glass are overlapped and placed in front of a dots.
single flashlight, however, little or no light will ⇒ The rules of color subtraction are different from the rules
be transmitted. of light addition.

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Exercise 40
You're explaining to a youngster at the seashore
why the water is cyan colored. The youngster
points to the whitecaps of overturning waves and
asked why they are white. What is your answer?

⇒ The water is broken up into a multitude


of different size droplets when the wave
breaks, and like the droplets in clouds
overhead, light of many visible frequencies
is scattered to produce the white color.

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