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∙ 10y agoActually it wasn't reflected light. It was light that had passed through a glass prism with a triangular cross-section. He was seeing the effects of refraction. When light meets the surface of a transparent substance that has a different density it bends. Not only that, the amount that it bends depends on the colour of the light. So when Newton sent a white light source toward his prism he was able to split it into its constituent colours because the various colours all bent by different amounts.
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∙ 10y agoBecause certain objects can absorb specific wavelengths of light(color) and they reflect the waves that they cannot absorb. the reflected wave of light is the visible color of the object.
Our eyes are specifically designed to detect light. The objects reflecting the light change the property of light, including its intensity and color; this allows us to make conclusions about the objects it was reflected from.Our eyes are specifically designed to detect light. The objects reflecting the light change the property of light, including its intensity and color; this allows us to make conclusions about the objects it was reflected from.Our eyes are specifically designed to detect light. The objects reflecting the light change the property of light, including its intensity and color; this allows us to make conclusions about the objects it was reflected from.Our eyes are specifically designed to detect light. The objects reflecting the light change the property of light, including its intensity and color; this allows us to make conclusions about the objects it was reflected from.
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that color is absorbed by the object (therefore you don't see that color. Only reflected colors can be seen)
No, not objects that are opaque.
You see objects because visible light( a small portion of the electromagnetic spectrum) is reflected off the surface of something into your eye. All different colors have a different wavelength which defines their frequency. When you see a red object, that object is absorbing all the colors except for red which is then reflected into your eye.
To experience lightness constancy, it is necessary to view the light reflected by any object relative to the light reflected by surrounding objects. Lightness constancy is defined as the tendency to perceive little variation in the lightness of objects.
In order to see, the eye must receive light; and darkness is the absence of light. Most of the objects we see around us are visible by reflected light -- reflected sunlight or reflected artificial light. Since darkness is the absence of light, there is no light in the darkness to be reflected from chairs, tables, or people to our eyes, and therefore we can not see these objects.
Objects in space that can only be viewed from earth becouse of reflected light energy are said to be
Red: absorbedOrange: absorbedYellow: absorbedGreen: absorbedBlue: absorbedIndigo: absorbedViolet: reflected