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COLOURS

Newton’s Discovery

● In the year 1666, Newton showed that


white light could be split into different
colours.
● The picture shows Newton using light
from the sun, coming through a hole,
then using a glass block in the shape
of a triangle to split the light into its
colours. He was shining the colours
onto a screen.
The Spectrum
● The range of colours that can be seen in white light is called a spectrum.
● In the spectrum, the colours are not separate but they merge from one to
another
● In the order that the colours appear in the spectrum:
Red - Orange - Yellow - Green - Blue - Indigo - Violet

● Dispersion means splitting light into different


colours. It happens because light is refracted.
● When a ray of white light passes through the
prism, the ray is refracted. Violet light is
refracted through the largest angle and red
light is refracted through the smallest angle.
Rainbow
● A rainbow is formed when drops of water in the air
cause dispersion of light. The light is also reflected
from inside the drops of water.
● For you to see a rainbow;
- the sun must be shining, to provide bright light
- there must be rain or small drops of water in the
air, to cause dispersion of light
- the sun must be behind you, because the water
drops reflect the light inside them.
● The drops of water from the hosepipe in figure are
making a rainbow.
The sun is shining and the sun is behind the
camera.
Primary Colours

● There are three colours of light from which all other


colours of light can be made.
These are called the primary colours.
● The primary colours cannot be made by mixing any
other colours of light.
● The primary colours of light are:
Red - Green - Blue.
● The primary colours of light are different from the
primary colours in paints. The colours in light mix
differently from the colours in paint.
● The different colours that you see on a mobile phone, computer or television are all
produced from combinations of the three primary colours of light.

● Changing the brightness of the primary colours makes all these different colours.
● Research has shown that 256 is the maximum number of colours that most
people can see.
Subtracting colours of light
● Colour filters are used to block or absorb certain colours of light, allowing only specific colours
to pass through.
● If a transparent piece of coloured glass or plastic is placed in front of a white light, then only
light of that colour will be transmitted (get through). All the other colours will be absorbed.
● Example: the red-coloured filters in traffic lights.
White light, from the lamp, is made from the seven colours of light: red, orange, yellow, green,
blue, indigo and violet.
When these seven colours arrive at the red filter, only red is transmitted. The other six are
absorbed.
As with numbers, it is possible to subtract colours of light until the end result is zero.

For example, if white light shines on a green filter, only green light will get through. The
other colours of the white light are absorbed.

If this green light then shines on a red filter then no light will get through.

Green is one of the colours that a red filter absorbs.


When you look at a non-luminous object, you see the light that is reflected from the
object. ‘Non-luminous’ means the object does not emit its own light.

The flower is seen in white light. The flower looks yellow because it reflects only
yellow light.

The flower absorbs the other six colours in white light.


A white object reflects all the colours in white light equally.

A black object absorbs all the colours in white light and does not reflect any.
● The red cube appears black when
seen in blue light.

This is because red objects only


reflect red light.

It absorbs all other colours.


● The blue cube appears black when
seen in red light for the same reason.
It absorbs the red light and does not
reflect any light.
ISHIHARA TEST

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