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When light hits an object, some of the light spectrum is absorbed and some is reflected. The colour you see is the reflected light. The rest is absorbed. For example a red T shirt will absorb all the colours in the light spectrum a nd reflect red. Black absorbes all light and reflects non hence darkness and white is the reflection of the full spectrum. Orange is a blended reflection of Yellow and red.

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What happen when light reflects?

When light reflects, on an object it bounces off of the object and you can see the object much more clearly.


What is the color of an opaque object determined by?

the wave length of light that is absorbed by the object determines color--White refects all eye perceptible colors where as black absorbes The colour of an opaque object is determined by the wavelength of the visible spectrum that it reflects. Light is made up of 7 colours, each having a specific wavelength range. Consider an object which appears green to the eye. Actually the object is not green in colour, it only reflects the waves pertaining to green wavelength range. All other wavelength are either transmitted or absorbed. The reflected wave reaches our retina and is perceived as that colour.


The color of an opaque object is the same as the light that is?

...reflected off of it. For example, leaves appear green as their pigment (chlorophyll) only reflects the wavelength of green light.


If you shine a blue light on a red object what color will the object turn?

Believe it or not, the object will appear black! Here's why. An object is red because it absorbs all wavelengths of light except red. It reflects the red back to our eyes, so that's what color we perceive. If you, then, have no other light source and shine purely blue light on a red object, the object will absorb the blue light and you won't get any light reflected at all. In other words, black.


Is the color of transparent objects depends on the color they absorb?

transparent objects are transparent because your eyes tells you so. In reality, every body sees every colour differently as our eye cells are not the same. So, in answer to the question, yes, but you cannot see it.

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What determines the color of an object you see?

The color of an object is determined by the wavelengths of light that it reflects. When light shines on an object, certain wavelengths are absorbed and others are reflected, and it is these reflected wavelengths that determine the color that our eyes perceive.


What determines the color of an object we see?

The color of an object we see is determined by the wavelengths of light that the object reflects or emits. When light strikes an object, certain wavelengths are absorbed and others are reflected, which then enter our eyes and are interpreted by the brain as color.


What an object is made of and the color of light that strikes it determines the what?

The material an object is made of and the color of light it reflects can determine how hot an object gets when it is left out in the sun. Color and material both affect the amount of heat an object will absorb.


Is the color of an object appears to be is the color of light absorbs?

No, the color of an object is the color of light that it reflects, not the color it absorbs. When light shines on an object, the object absorbs some colors and reflects others. The reflected colors are what we see.


How does the color of an object depends on the reflection and the absorption of light?

If it reflects that color of light, you're eyes will see that color being reflected by the object (when the color is being shown on the object, white light contains 'all' colors of visible light). If an object absorbs a color of light you will tend not to see it coming off of the object. Translation: objects will appear the color(s) of light that it reflects. If an object appears red, it reflects red light.


What color is an object when it reflects blue?

Assuming that the light you are shining on the object is white, then the object is also blue. Objects appear a certain color because they reflect that color to our eyes and the rest of the colors in the light are absorbed by the object.


What describes the visible color of an object?

The light the object reflects.


An opaque object has a particular color because it reflects some light and what?

An opaque object has a particular color because it absorbs certain wavelengths of light and reflects others. The reflected light is what we perceive as the object's color.


How is the color of an opaque object determend?

The color of an opaque object is determined by the wavelengths of light it reflects. The object absorbs certain wavelengths of light and reflects others, which our eyes perceive as color. For example, an object that appears red absorbs most colors of light except for red, which it reflects.


Why does an object reflect some colours only and absorb the rest?

An object appears as a certain color because it reflects that color of light and absorbs all other colors. The color we see is the result of the light that is reflected off the object and enters our eyes. The object's pigment or surface material determines which colors are absorbed and which are reflected.


What is the color of an object is?

The color of an object are defined by the wavelengths of visible light that the object reflects. This reflected light is picked up by our eyes and interpreted as color. The other wavelengths of light are absored.


What determine the color of an object?

Light comes in many different "wavelengths". The wavelength of a beam of light determines its color.White light contains light of all different wavelengths, but objects can reflect of absorb different wavelengths.The light that an object reflects determines its color.In other words, an object that looks red must be absorbing all wavelengths of light except red.