What happens when white light strikes a colored glass or filter?

Answer 1

An object appears black because it absorbs all the colors of the visible spectrum. If we idealize the object to make it perfectly absorptive, it absorbs all of the white light that strikes it and reflects none. In the real world, some light is always reflected. If the object appears black or dark gray, then it reflects small amounts of all colors of the spectrum.

Answer 2

All colors of light except red are transmitted through the glass, but the red wavelengths pass through. Therefore someone on the opposite side of the glass sees only red light.

Answer 3

"White light" means a combination of many different waves of light that are propagating together from a single or a number of sources. So when "white light", aka a package of various light waves combined into one, passes through a color filter, then all the light except the color of the filter is absorbed.

Answer 4

Assuming a smooth surface, the components of the white light that were NOT absorbed by the object will be reflected. e.g. a mandarin absorbs most colours from the white light, apart from the orange colours. Bananas absorb most of the colours apart from the Yellowish ones. And so on.

A smooth uncoloured surface will reflect all the light.

A transparent surface will allow much of the light to be transmitted through it.

Answer 5

the black object absorbs most of the light. Theoretically nothing can be truly black because if it were truly black, we could not see it.

Answer 6

it might be reflect or absorb when it hits green color all clores absorbs but green refleccts

Answer 7

other color components of the white light will be absorbed and the blue light component will be reflected, so we see that object displays a blue color

Answer 8

It reflects and scatters.

Answer 9

The opaque object absorbs all the light.