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What are the 3 primary colors of light and all the colors of the rainbow?
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The "primary colors" are red, blue, and green. Combining these colors can create any color or shade of light, and they are represented in video displays by individual color dots within each display pixel.
The "primary colors of light" refer to the "colors of the rainbow", or spectrum, which are the individual wavelength ranges present in visible light.
Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet (mnemonic acronym ROY G BIV ) (note indigo is not considered a scientific solitary color anymore, demoted kind of like the dwarf planet Pluto)
In "subtractive coloration", dye colors are used that absorb one or more wavelengths of light, causing the reflected light to appear as a given color. These absorptive dyes are the colors cyan (bluish), magenta (reddish), and yellow. Along with black, they are ink colors in computer printing. (mnemonic CMYK for cyan, yellow, magenta, black)
(* See the related question "what are the primary colors")
FYI- The 3 Primary colors of PAINT- what we draw/color with are different-They are red, blue and yellow
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What are the colours of the rainbow collectively know as?
white light contains all of the colors of the rainbow, so if all of the rainbow's colors shown collectively at one point, the light would be white light (like the sun's light).
Newton discovered that the colors formed by a prism can be recombined to create light?
He discovers what is known as the rainbow, by using a prism to show that light is made up of all of those colors.
What is the break up of sunlight into colors?
An optical prism can be used to disperse light from the sun's spectrum into all of its constituent colors. It is the same concept that gives rise to the phenomenon of rainbows.
Where does the rainbow gets its colors?
An individual raindrop has a different shape and consistency than a glass prism, but it affects light in a similar way. When white sunlight hits a collection of raindrops at a fairly low angle, you can see the component colors red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet -- a rainbow. For simplicity's sake, we'll only look at red and violet, the colors of light on the ends of the visible light spectrum. The diagram below shows what happens when the sunlight hits one individual raindrop.When the white light passes from air into the drop of water, the component colors of light slow down to different speeds depending on their frequency. The violet light bends at a relatively sharp angle when it enters the raindrop. At the right-hand side of the drop, some of the light passes back out into the air, and the rest is reflected backward. Some of the reflected light passes out of the left side of the drop, bending as it moves into the air again. In this way, each individual raindrop disperses white sunlight into its component colors. So why do we see wide bands of color, as if different rainy areas were dispersing a different single color? Because we only see one color from each raindrop. You can see how this works in the diagram below.When raindrop A disperses light, only the red light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eyes. The other colored beams exit at a lower angle, so the observer doesn't see them. The sunlight will hit all the surrounding raindrops in the same way, so they will all bounce red light onto the observer. Raindrop B is much lower in the sky, so it doesn't bounce red light to the observer. At its height, the violet light exits at the correct angle to travel to the observer's eye. All the drops surrounding raindrop B bounce light in the same way. The raindrops in between A and B all bounce different colors of light to the observer, so the observer sees the full color spectrum. If you were up above the rain, you would see the rainbow as a full circle, because the light would bounce back from all around you. On the ground, we see the arc of the rainbow that is visible above the horizon. Sometimes you see a double rainbow -- a sharp rainbow with a fainter rainbow on top of it. The fainter rainbow is produced in the same way as the sharper rainbow, but instead of the light reflecting once inside the raindrop, it's reflected twice. As a result of this double reflection, the light exits the raindrop at a different angle, so we see it higher up. If you look carefully, you'll see that the colors in the second rainbow are in the reverse order of the primary rainbow. And that's really all there is to rainbows. Light and water happen to combine in just the right way to paint a beautiful natural picture.
How does light affect color?
color affects light by the color for example if you see the rainbow how is it made with rain right and sun so wat the sun and the rain do is combine themselves and make colors
List three colors that can combine to produce all the colors of the rainbow?
The primary colors: red, blue and green. The primary colors of light do this, which does NOT include yellow. Red, green and blue are the primary colors of light, and, as you probably know, rainbows are just light. You can also test out the red, green blue primary colors on a computer and see that any color you can think of can be made with them.
What color is obtained when the primary colors of light are mixed and why?
You would get white, because it is like the light beams are going through a crystal. The idea encapsulated here is that white light, when sent through a prism, is broken up into its constituent colors. When you reverse the process and add together the light that is broken up by a prism, the result is white light. ___________________________________________ When the primary colors of light are mixed, the outcome is white light. I don't know exactly why this happens, but I'm guessing this: You know how white light is really composed of all the colors of the rainbow? When you mix all the primary colors of the rainbow together, you get white light.
What are the colours of the rainbow collectively know as?
white light contains all of the colors of the rainbow, so if all of the rainbow's colors shown collectively at one point, the light would be white light (like the sun's light).
What are examples of light wave?
All of the colors in the rainbow.
What can cause all the colors of visible light to be seen in a rainbow?
water separate white light into visible light
What colors of light make up light?
There are an infinite number of colors of visible light,and ALL of them are present in a rainbow.
When in nature do we see all the colors in the visible light spectrum?
You see all the colors in a rainbow.
What color of light make up a rainbow?
There are an infinite number of colors of visible light,and ALL of them are present in a rainbow.
What is white light divided into?
White light is the combination of all the colors of light in the visible spectrum. When it is divided, it becomes all the colors of the rainbow.
The colors of white light make up a?
The colours of white light are all of the colors that make up a rainbow. White light is actually a mixture of all colors.
Light waves are example of what wave?
All of the colors in the rainbow.
When all colors combine you get?
we will get black color when all the primary colors(RGB)* combine. * R-red; G-green; B-blue the combination of these primary colors in different proportions gives the different shades of colors. when all these colors combine we will get black. Depends on what you are mixing. :-) If you are mixing colored light, then mixing all colors gets you white. If you are mixing paint, it depends on the proportions, but if all are equal, you get black.
