Science behind Colors
Do you ever stop to look up at the sky and wonder why exactly everything is blue? If you open up a science textbook, it's extremely likely that you'll stop wondering then and there about all such matters, but we'd like to tell you not to lose hope--we're here to make even science seem interesting! Everything we see around us is based on the field of physics called "Optics." In fact, the human eye on its own is an organ of remarkable complexity. Read on to find out more about the way we see the world around us!
Biology
The Human Eye
The human eye may seem simple from the outside, but it is one of the most complex organs of the human body…
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Color Blindness
The cones on our retina enable us to see in daylight. Cones contain pigments representative of red, green and blue—the…
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Color sensitivity in animals
Animals have eyes just like we do—or most of them do, in any case. But there are some very distinct differences in the vision of…
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Color Generation
How do we make color?
Sir Isaac Newton was the first man to use a wheel to represent colors. His color wheel…
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Manufacturing color
All the colors that we use in the form of paint or other equipment were originally made by the tribes from natural dyes found in the environment…
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Physics
The wave theory
Although most of us accept the existence of colors and do not question their origin, the phenomenon of color is more complex…
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Newton’s theory
It was first established that white light, or the nearly white light that emanates from the sun, is a mixture of colors in 1666, when an Italian priest’s experiment…
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Reflection
Reflection of light is how we ‘see’ things at all, regardless of color. Light waves from the sun--which, as it emanates its own light, is known as a luminous source…
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Refraction
light travels at different speeds in different media. In air, this speed is 3^10 m/s. However, when light enters a transparent material like glass…
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Total internal reflection
One of the most interesting questions that comes to our minds when we digest the refraction theory is, what happens if the refracted ray bends so much, it cannot exit the medium…
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Natural Sciences
Light in air
Light from the sun travels through the universe, i.e. space, this is a vacuum—that means there is no physical matter present through which light travels…
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Why is the sky blue?
Why is the sky blue? It seems silly to ask that now that we’ve been seeing the sky everyday for several years, but when we were still relatively ‘new’ to the Earth as young children…
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Rainbows
The minute you read about Newton’s experiment with the glass prism and the obtained spectrum, you must have found something very familiar about the colors obtained…
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