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Science 10 - Visible Light Presentation

Visible light is a small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye, ranging from wavelengths of 380 to 700 nanometers. Isaac Newton was the first scientist to write about the visible light spectrum in his book Opticks in the 17th century, where he demonstrated that white light is composed of seven visible colors through experiments using prisms and sunlight. However, Roger Bacon is believed to have discovered visible light centuries earlier by looking through water.

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Science 10 - Visible Light Presentation

Visible light is a small segment of the electromagnetic spectrum that is visible to the human eye, ranging from wavelengths of 380 to 700 nanometers. Isaac Newton was the first scientist to write about the visible light spectrum in his book Opticks in the 17th century, where he demonstrated that white light is composed of seven visible colors through experiments using prisms and sunlight. However, Roger Bacon is believed to have discovered visible light centuries earlier by looking through water.

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Electromagnetic Waves

Visible light
Electromagnetic light energy is everywhere,
but very little of it can actually be seen by the human eye.
Visible Light
Visible light is one way energy moves around. Light waves are the result of
vibrations of electric and magnetic fields, and are thus a form of
electromagnetic (EM) radiation.
Visible light is just one of many types of EM radiation, and occupies a very
small range of the overall electromagnetic spectrum but because we can see
light with our eyes, it has special significance to us.
Visible light's neighbors on the EM
spectrum are infrared radiation on the one
side and ultraviolet radiation on the other.
Infrared radiation has longer waves than red
light, and thus oscillates at a lower
frequency and carries less energy. 
Ultraviolet radiation has shorter waves than
blue or violet light, and thus oscillates more
rapidly and carries more energy per photon
than visible light does.
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Who Discovered Visible Light?:

Isaac Newton
In the 17th century, Isaac Newton explained this
optical spectrum in his book Opticks. 
He was the first scientist to write about it but is not
recognized as the discoverer of visible light.
Newton’s Rainbow
In the 1660s, English physicist and

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mathematician Isaac Newton began a series of
experiments with sunlight and prisms. He
demonstrated that clear white light was
composed of seven visible colors.

Aristotle developed the first known theory of


color believing it was sent by God from heaven
through celestial rays of light. He suggested that
all colors came from white and black (lightness
and darkness) and related them to the four
elements – water, air, earth, and fire. Aristotle’s
beliefs on color were widely held for over 2000
years until being replaced by those of Newton.
Sir Isaac Newton described how white light
is made up of different colors in 1671 in his
book optics. An easy way to remember the
colors of visible light is to use the name
ROYGBIV which stands for Red, Orange,
Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet. Red
light is found at the lower end of the visible
spectrum it has longer wavelength of about
740 nanometers, light in the middle of the
spectrum is seen as green and light at the
upper end of the spectrum which has
wavelength of around 380 nanometers is
seen as violet.
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Who Discovered Visible Light?:

Roger Bacon
He is believed to have discovered visible light by
looking in a glass of water four centuries before
Newton wrote about visible light.
What is the visible light spectrum?
-The visible light spectrum is the segment of the electromagnetic
spectrum that the human eye can view. More simply, this range
of wavelengths is called visible light. Typically, the human eye
can detect wavelengths from 380 to 700 nanometers.
4 Examples of Visible Light

Sunlight LED light

Light Bulb Laser Light


Sunlight
Sunlight The light that we receive from the sun is a
prominent example of visible light in real life. The
sunlight appears to be white in colour, but contains a set
of seven colours arranged in a specific order according
to the value of wavelengths. This set of colours is
abbreviated as VIBGYOR and can be observed easily by
passing the sunlight through a glass prism.
Light Bulb
An electric light bulb is a common light source used in
households. It consists of a filament made up of
tungsten. When the switch is connected and a closed
circuit is formed, the electric current passing through the
filament of the electric bulb tends to increase the
temperature to a level after which it begins to produce
light. The light produced by an electric light bulb is yet
another example of visible light in real life.
LEDs
Light emission diodes are small electronic components
that make use of the conversion and transformation of
energy from one form to another. The basic principle of
operation of such devices is to use electrical energy as
input and release light energy that falls within the visible
light range as an output. The application of light-emitting
diodes can be seen easily in televisions, fairy lights,
lamps, etc.
Laser Light
LASER is an acronym for light amplification by the
stimulated emission of radiation. LASER is a device that
produces a high intensity, narrow beam of visible light
through a process of optical amplification that is based
on the stimulated emission of electromagnetic
radiations.
Application
1. Indispensable for writing, reading etc.
2. Helps to avoid stepping stuff
3. Photography
4. Medical Uses
5. Helps to observe things
6. Artificial Lighting
Disadvantages
1. Cause retinal damage
2. Cause skin cancer
3. Leads to degradation of food products
…if the Sun’s Light consisted of but one
sort of Rays, there would be but one
Colour in the whole World…

–Sir Isaac Newton, Opticks

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