Emission and absorption and transmission
• Emission – waves are _ _ _ _ _ out from a _ _ _ _ _ _ .
• Boundary – where two _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ meet.
• Absorption – waves _ _ _ _ _ _ pass from one _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to another.
• Transmission – waves _ _ _ pass from one _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ to another.
Primary Colours
The 3 primary colours are:
_ _ _ , _ _ _ _ _ and _ _ _ _
All other colours can be made by using different combinations
of primary colours.
_ _ _ _ _ light is made by using all 3 primary colours.
Black is not a colour – it is the _ _ _ _ _ _ _ of colour.
Why do we see different colours?
Objects with different colours absorb and reflect different colours of light.
A Red strawberry A green leaf A blue chair
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ red _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ green _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ blue
light and _ _ _ _ _ _ light and _ _ _ _ _ _ light and _ _ _ _ _ _
other colours. other colours. other colours.
Blue bottle
A bottle looks blue in blue light and it looks blue in white light.
Why does the bottle look blue in both kinds of light?
Blue bottle
Fill in the gaps to explain why the bottle looks blue.
You should only use the words reflects and absorbs.
In blue light
Blue light does not contain any other colour, just blue. When it lights up the bottle, the bottle
__________ blue light. We see the light that the bottle __________.
In white light
White light contains all the colours of the spectrum. When the bottle is in white light it
__________ blue light. The bottle __________ red light and green light. It __________
all of the colours in white light except for blue.
We see the bottle because of the light that it __________.
Flag colours
This is the flag of Guyana, in South America.
Flag colours
Predict
What will the flag of Guyana
look like in green light?
Explain
Why do you think it will look
like this?
Flag colours
Look at the flag in green light
Observe
Which flag does it look like?
Explain
Were your prediction and
explanation correct?
If not, can you explain what
you observed?
Mixing coloured light
Coloured lights can be mixed to make new colours.
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Apparatus Mixing coloured light
• lab pack (12V) • red, green and blue filters
• x2 ray lamps • white screen
Procedure
1. Plug both ray lamps into the lab pack and turn on.
2. Put one coloured filter in each ray lamp.
3. Shine the ray lamps at the screen to add the two colours of
light.
4. Write down the new colour in a results table.
5. Write down how the brightness changes when the colours
are added.
6. Repeat for different pairs of colours.
Mixing coloured light
Results
Colour of Colour of Colour of Change in
light 1 light 2 mixed light brightness
Mixing coloured light
To answer
1. Did you get the colours that you expected?
Explain your answer.
2. What happens to the brightness of red light when a second red light is
added?
3. What happens to the brightness of the red light when a different colour
is added?
Why is it harder to judge brightness when the colours are different?
Practical skills question:
4. Why should the ray lamps always be the same distance from the screen?
Primary colours of light
