Why does the color of an object look different under a fluorescent lamp from the way it looks under an incandescent lamp?
To Explain: The way in which the color of an object looks different under a fluorescent lamp and the incandescent lamp.
Explanation of Solution
Introduction:
The incandescent light gives a continuous spectrum while the fluorescent light gives emission spectrum.
Different substances have different natural frequencies. Therefore, lights with variable frequencies are emitted by fluorescent and incandescent lamps. An incandescent lamp is just like the sun which emits the light in continuous spectrum of all the colors while the fluorescent lamp emits discrete spectrum of light.
So, the color of an object looks different under a fluorescent lamp from incandescent lamp.
Conclusion:
Fluorescent light and incandescent light emit lights of different frequencies, so the color of an object varies under them.
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