Colour Flashcards

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AQA IGCSE Physics (EOY exams yr 8) Flashcards on Colour Flashcards, created by Emma Boxley on 06/05/2013.
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"Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain" is an acronym. What does it stand for? Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue Indigo, Violet. These are all the colours in the colour spectrum.
Is white light a single colour? No. It is made up of many different colours.
What is the difference in black and white objects in relation to reflection? Black objects absorb all light and white objects reflect it.
What colour does blue and red make? Magenta
What colour does red and magenta light make? Magenta
What colour does Blue and Magenta make? Magenta?
What does red and green light make? Yellow
What colour does red and yellow light make? Yellow
What colour does green and yellow light make? Yellow
What colour does green and blue make? Cyan
Green and cyan light and blue and cyan light both make the same colour. What colour is this? Cyan.
Yellow and Cyan make.... White light
What colour does magenta and yellow light make? White light
What colour does Cyan and Magenta light make? White light
Filters only let one colour go through. What happens to all the other colours of light? They get absorbed.
A Magenta light through a red filter will show a red light. Why is this? Because Magenta is made up of blue and red light; the blue gets absorbed but the red goes through.
A red fliter followed by a blue filter will not show any light. Why is this? Because the red filter absorbs all light apart from red, and so there is no blue light to go through the filter.
A blue t-shirt with red decoration looks like a black t-shirt with red decoration in red light. Why is this? The decoration looksred because it reflects red light but the tshirt does not reflect erd light so appears to be black to your eye.
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