1. This student is looking at many colors on his computer screen
This student is looking at many colors on his computer screen. What he is actually seeing, however, are combinations of only three colors of light.

2. Separating White Light Into Colors
How does a prism separate white light?
As white light passes through a prism, shorter wavelengths refract more than longer wavelengths, and the colors separate.

3. Separating White Light Into Colors
Sunlight is made up of all the colors of the visible spectrum. A prism separates white light into a visible spectrum.
When red light, with its longer wavelength, enters a glass prism, it slows down the least of all the colors.
Red light is bent the least.
Violet light is bent the most.

4. Separating White Light Into Colors
The process in which white light separates into colors is called dispersion. A rainbow forms when droplets of water in the air act like prisms.
When light enters a raindrop, it slows down and refracts. Then it reflects off the far inner surface of the raindrop.
It refracts again as it exits the raindrop, speeds up, and travels back toward the source of the light.

5. Separating White Light Into Colors
The shorter wavelengths are bent more than the longer wavelengths. The colors are separated.
Water droplets separate the colors of sunlight, producing a rainbow.

6. The Colors of Objects
What determines the color of an object?
The color of any object depends on what the object is made of and on the color of light that strikes the object.

7. The Colors of Objects
An object’s color is the color of light that reaches your eye when you look at the object.
Sunlight contains all the colors of the visible spectrum.
A red car in sunlight reflects mostly red light.
Most of the rest of the light is absorbed at the surface of the paint.

8. The Colors of Objects
What happens if you change the color of the light shining on an object?
Only the colors that are in the light can be reflected.

9. The Colors of Objects
Under white light, the pots appear white, green, yellow, red, and blue. The pots appear to be different colors when viewed in different colors of light, depending on what light is reflected.

10. The Colors of Objects
Under white light, the pots appear white, green, yellow, red, and blue. The pots appear to be different colors when viewed in different colors of light, depending on what light is reflected.

11. The Colors of Objects
Under white light, the pots appear white, green, yellow, red, and blue. The pots appear to be different colors when viewed in different colors of light, depending on what light is reflected.

12. The Colors of Objects
Under white light, the pots appear white, green, yellow, red, and blue. The pots appear to be different colors when viewed in different colors of light, depending on what light is reflected.

13. Mixing Colors of Light
What are the primary colors of light?
Primary colors are three specific colors that can be combined in varying amounts to create all possible colors.
The primary colors of light are red, green, and blue.

14. Mixing Colors of Light
The three primary colors of light are red, green, and blue. When any two primary colors combine, a secondary color is formed.

15. The Colors of Objects
If more than one color of light is reflected from a surface, the colors of light mix. When colors of light mix, they add to form a new color.
Each secondary color of light is a combination of two primary colors. The secondary colors of light are cyan, yellow, and magenta.

16. The Colors of Objects
If you add a primary color to the proper secondary color, you will get white light.
Two colors of light that combine to form white light are complementary colors of light.
A complementary color pair is a combination of one primary color and one secondary color.

17. Mixing Pigments
What are the primary colors of pigments?
The primary colors of pigments are cyan, yellow, and magenta.

18. Mixing Pigments
A pigment is a material that absorbs some colors of light and reflects other colors.
Paints, inks, photographs, and dyes get their colors from pigments.
Color printers and photocopiers use three colors–cyan, magenta, and yellow–plus black.
You can mix varying amounts of these primary pigment colors to make almost any other color.

19. Mixing Pigments
Each pigment reflects one or more colors. As pigments are mixed together, more colors are absorbed, and fewer colors are reflected.
When two or more pigments are mixed together, the colors absorbed by each pigment are subtracted out of the light that strikes the mixture.

20. Mixing Pigments
Any two colors of pigments that combine to make black pigment are complementary colors of pigments.
Cyan and magenta combine to form blue.
Cyan and yellow combine to form green.
Yellow and magenta combine to form red.
The secondary colors of pigments are red, green, and blue.

21. Mixing Pigments
The three primary colors of pigments are cyan, yellow, and magenta. When the three primary colors of pigments are combined, the secondary colors of pigments are formed.

22. A prism separates white light into the visible spectrum because
Assessment Questions
A prism separates white light into the visible spectrum because
longer wavelengths are absorbed more than shorter wavelengths.
shorter wavelengths refract more than longer wavelengths.
shorter wavelengths reflect more than longer wavelengths.
longer wavelengths experience more interference.

23. A prism separates white light into the visible spectrum because
Assessment Questions
A prism separates white light into the visible spectrum because
longer wavelengths are absorbed more than shorter wavelengths.
shorter wavelengths refract more than longer wavelengths.
shorter wavelengths reflect more than longer wavelengths.
longer wavelengths experience more interference. ANS: B

24. The color of an object depends on what the object is made of and on
Assessment Questions
The color of an object depends on what the object is made of and on
the intensity of light that strikes the object.
the color of light that strikes the object.
the direction of the light that strikes the object.
the speed of the light that strikes the object.

25. The color of an object depends on what the object is made of and on
Assessment Questions
The color of an object depends on what the object is made of and on
the intensity of light that strikes the object.
the color of light that strikes the object.
the direction of the light that strikes the object.
the speed of the light that strikes the object. ANS: B

26. Which of these colors is one of the primary colors of light?
Assessment Questions
Which of these colors is one of the primary colors of light?
green
magenta
yellow
white

27. Which of these colors is one of the primary colors of light?
Assessment Questions
Which of these colors is one of the primary colors of light?
green
magenta
yellow
white ANS: A