Why is it called a "black" ball in the first place ? Most likely because it absorbsany light that hits it, regardless of color, and nothing ever bounces off of it.That reasoning gives you your answer right there: You can shine red light on it ...or green or purple or fuschia, mauve, burgundy, teale or turquoise ... and it'll stilllook black.
Dispersion is when light is refracted inside a prism and all the colours are separated because red light refracts less than violet light. Reflection is when light hits an object and bounces back off it.
Red Light
blue light and red light make purple light
Why do you call that flower a "red" rose ? Could it be because it appears red in typical 'wideband' solar or household light ? That must mean that when light of many colors shines on it, the rose absorbs everything except red, and red is the only light left to bounce off of it toward your eyes. If that's the case, and you illuminate it with light of any single color other than red, then the rose will absorb that light and appear black.
Well the light bounces off the item back to your eyes. A red substance reflects back only red light yellow only yellow and so on.
Simply illuminate it with a source of light that has no red in it.A "red" dress is called "red" because that's the only color of light that it does not absorb.When "white" light ... which has all colors in it ... shines on the dress, the dyes in thefabric absorb all colors in the light except red. So any light that bounces off the dressand into your eyes is red light. If there's no red there to begin with, then there's nothingto bounce off the dress toward your eyes, and the dress appears black.
When you see the color red, you are seeing red light reflect off of a surface. This means that any other color light that hits that object is absorbed into the surface. The exception to this is when you see red light, in that case you are seeing light that does not contain any other color of light.
It is actually red light that is reflecting off of the cabbage. If it was in green light, it would appear black because there is no red light to reflect off of it.
The light bounces off objects and then is delivered to your eye, and then the brain scans it. You can see color because the different wavelengths of light have different color - longer wavelengths are warm colors (red, yellow, orange, and similar colors) and shorter wavelengths are cool colors (blue, green, indigo, brown, etc).
-- A white shirt is called "white" because any light that hits it, no matter what color,bounces off of it.-- A red filter is called "red" because any light that hits it is absorbed and dies in thefilter, EXCEPT red light, which survives to come out the other side.-- So if there is any red in the light arriving at the filter, then the light that comes out is red.(And if there is no red in the light arriving at the filter, then no light comes out of it at all.)-- Therefore, we can be sure that light shining on the shirt ... if it has been through the filter ...is red light.-- The shirt reflects any light that hits it, so the light that proceeds from the shirt to your eyesis red light.
The light bounces off objects and then is delivered to your eye, and then the brain scans it. You can see color because the different wavelengths of light have different color - longer wavelengths are warm colors (red, yellow, orange, and similar colors) and shorter wavelengths are cool colors (blue, green, indigo, brown, etc).
The light bounces off objects and then is delivered to your eye, and then the brain scans it. You can see color because the different wavelengths of light have different color - longer wavelengths are warm colors (red, yellow, orange, and similar colors) and shorter wavelengths are cool colors (blue, green, indigo, brown, etc).
Why is it called a "black" ball in the first place ? Most likely because it absorbsany light that hits it, regardless of color, and nothing ever bounces off of it.That reasoning gives you your answer right there: You can shine red light on it ...or green or purple or fuschia, mauve, burgundy, teale or turquoise ... and it'll stilllook black.
Colors come from the sun's light bouncing off of objects; like if you have a green sheet of paper, it absorbs all colors except green. So it bounces green off of it so that's what you see. Same with secondary colors. Orange bounces red and yellow off of it.
The red color comes from light that reflects off of the retinas in our eyes
there is no color combo that makes red. it is a primary color. the color red is actually light reflecting off the obect.