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Physics 28 vocab
cdeutsch/ursuline
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| for sunlight and other white light, spread of colors seen when light is passed through a prism or diffraction grating | spectrum |
| light (sunlight) that's a combination of all colors | white light |
| material that selectively absorbs colored light | pigment |
| red, blue, and green light, added together these colors produce white light | additive primary colors |
| two colors of light added together make white light; across from each other on the color wheel Yellow is complementary to blue | complementary |
| most useful in color mixing in photographs; magenta, yellow, cyan | subtractive primary colors |
| sound or light is absorbed and re-emitted in all directions | scattering |
| state with greater energy than an atom's lowest state | excited state |
| instrument used to separate light from hot gas or other light source into its constituent frequencies | sprectroscope |
| pattern of distinct lines of color, corresponding to particular wavelength that are seen in a spectroscope when a hot gas is viewed | line spectrum |
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