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Chapter 28-.1
color spectrum
Question | Answer |
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What causes a person to see color? | The frequencies of light that are given off or reflected by an object. |
How do we perceive a particular frequency as a particular color? | this depends on our eye brain system. |
What causes color blindness? | defective cones in the retina of the eye. |
Who was the first person to explore color in detail? | Isaac Newton |
What did Isaac Newton do? | passed a beam of sunlight through a glass prism |
list the colors in the color spectrum | red,orange,yellow,green,blue,violet (ROYGBV) |
What is white light? | combination of all colors.ex:sunlight |
Describe how black is related to light? | its not a true color, but is the absence of any of the colors of light. |