Chapter 28, Problem 6A

a. What color(s) of light does a transparent red object transmit?

b. What color(s) does it absorb?

To determine

Explain, the color of light that transmit from a transparent red object.

Explanation of Solution

Introduction:

Materials like glass, air and water are known as transparent Color is a property of light that depends on its wavelength. Some of it is absorbed and some is reflected, when light falls on an object.

The light strikes the transparent object, almost all of the light passes through it. For example, a glass, which transmits all the visible light. The color of the transparent object depends on the color of light that it transmits. If red light passes through a transparent object, then the emerging light is green. The light that strikes on a specific color of the transparent object, that object transmits the same color of light. In fact, each color filter will allow only the light of its color to pass through it. Irrespective of color of transparent object, all the light absorbed by it.

Thus, a transparent red object absorbs all other wavelengths and allows them to pass through only the red wavelength.

Conclusion:

The red color of light transmitted from the red transparent object.

To determine

Explain the color, that absorbed by the red transparent object.

Explanation of Solution

Introduction:

The role of the object is that it might contains atoms have capable of absorbing tall the wavelengths of visible light.

The object absorbs or reflects is just a matter of perception of the human eye. Generally, a transparent object that reflects all wavelengths appears white and absorbs all the wavelengths that appear black. Black and white colors are generally considered as true colors. The black color is said to be the result of absence of color.

So that, all the colors are absorbed by the red transparent object.

Conclusion:

All the colors are absorbed by the red transparent object.