How would you define colors? Where do they come from? Color can be defined 35a phenomenon of oh uch as red, brown, pink, or gray) or visual perception abies om incre ‘otherwise identical objects. Lights made up of wavelengths offght and each vravelengthis a particular color. The color we see 2 Se welch ravelenaths are refiected back to our eyes, Objects spoear to have different colors because they absorb me ae nea relents) and refector transmit other colors. Phere Sore sather important concept that i color-pigment The cctecngment refers to the color thats flected when the color Sroduved by light hits an object. Part ofthe light can be absorbed, and the other part reflected. aeace when an objects hitb light and that objects red In color-pigment, it will reflect the red light that will be captured by our eyes. Lookat the picture and answer: Which ae the primary and secondary colors of light? How are secondary colors of light formed? fed, green, and blue are known asthe primary colors of ight The combinations of two of the three primary colors flight produce the secondary color flight. The secondary colors of light sre cen, magenta, and yellow. When al three primary colors of ight combine, the results white ight. if an object has the white pigment-colo, all colors will be reflected. Ifthe object has no color, all the colors ofthe spectrum will be absorbed, ‘and we see the object as having the color black, meaning absence of color. A similar effect occurs ‘when using lamps with colored filters. In a totally dark environment that has only one green lamp, it will only emit the green color of light and only green objects will reflect this light. ‘How can we prove that white is the combination ofall colors? if you passa beam of white light through a prism, you vil see the light spit into the colors of the rainbow. There's red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet all spread out. f 18 Exclusive Additional Resources * Lesson 9