explain various colours have different wavelengths and frequencies?
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color\n\nThis might help out.
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Radio and micro describe the wavelength of the transmission. Filters can be designed to allow the desirable wavelengths through.
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http://eo.ucar.edu/rainbows/\n\nThe traditional description of the rainbow is that it is made up of seven colors - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Actually, the rainbow is a whole continuum of colors from red to violet and even beyond the colors that the eye can see.\n\nSunlight is made up of the whole range of colors that the eye can detect. The range of sunlight colors, when combined, looks white to the eye. This property of sunlight was first demonstrated by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666. \nLight of different colors is refracted by different amounts when it passes from one medium (air, for example) into another (water or glass, for example
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Any three colors (or frequencies) of light which produce white light when combined with the correct intensity!\n\n"White light can also be produced by combining only three distinct frequencies of light, provided that they are widely separated on the visible light spectrum. Any three colors (or frequencies) of light which produce white light when combined with the correct intensity are called primary colors of light. There are a variety of sets of primary colors; yet,the most common set of primary colors is red (R), green (G) and blue (B). When red, green and blue light are mixed or added together with the proper intensity, white (W) light is obtained. This is often represented by the equation below:\n\nR + G + B = W\n\nIn fact, the mixing together (or addition) of these three primary colors of light with varying degrees of intensity can produce a wide range of other colors. For this reason, television sets and computer monitors produce the range of colors on the monitor by the use of of red, green and blue phosphors."
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White light is actually made of all the colors of the "visible spectrum", which ranges from red to violet. A prism or a rainbow shows these colors by sorting light according to wavelength.\n\nLight passing through a completely transparent medium, like a pane of glass, will not show much difference.\n\nLight passing through a colored medium will allow mostly light of the color's wavelength to pass through, so you see that color.\n\nLight reflected off an object shows a color if the object reflects light of that frequency (wavelength).\n\nThe colors have to be there first. Color is not "acquired" by light.
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HOW A RAINBOW FORMS:\nWhen light travels from one medium to another, it bends. In other words, it changes direction and moves at different speeds in different mediums. This property of light is called “refraction”. \nWe also know that white light is made up of different colours. Different colors of light have different frequencies. Except in vacuum and air, they travel at different speeds in different mediums.\nIf you were to allow a beam of light to pass through a simple prism, it will bend when it enters the prism, when it leaves the prism it bends again. The different colours of the white light travel with different speeds inside the prism. The slanted surfaces of the prism makes the different colours emerge separately, thus in addition to bending light as a whole, a prism separates white light into its component colors. This splitting of light into its component colours is called dispersion, where prism is a dispersing element.\nThis is exactly what happens when the sun rays hit droplets of water. When the sunlight strikes a raindrop, the light is refracted (bent) because the light is moving from one medium(air) to another( water). Drops of rainwater can disperse light in the same way as a prism.. When the light comes out of the water droplet, the sun's rays (white light)have now been split into their component wavelengths (colors). In this way, each individual raindrop behaves just like a prism, dispersing white sunlight into its seven component colors and a rainbow is formed. \nThe rainbow we see is thus a result of many, many raindrops bending the sun's rays.\n\nWHY U SEE 5 COLORS:\nDont worry much! there are many colors in rainbow but we see only those who are flowing in a great band. i mean which have more thickness! some colors dont have much thickness there, so it becomes tough to see them. we generally see 5 colors where it is said that rainbow have 7 colors. sometimes we see only 3! it depends on rainbow too, and changes from rainbow to another! depends on the sun and the intensity of rain too.\n\nBut to take precautions u can go and see a doctor!
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All the waves you have mentioned, are electomagnetic waves. They differ in their frequency, this means, their energy. Therefore, you cannot have a radio wave the same frequency as a visible wave, its one or the other, the frequency will indicate if its radio, infrared, visible and so on. The differnt frequencies gives them their particular properties. All of them travel at the same speed.
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Visible light is within the electromagnetic spectrum.  This spectrum consists of different frequencies such as microwaves, visible light, gamma rays, laser, etc.  Visible light is just a band width within the electromagnetic spectrum that humans can detect with thier senses.  ROYGBIV- red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.  These are the colors that are detectable by humans within the electromagnetic spectrum and make up the visible light that we see.
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the wavelength is half...\n\nvavelength and frequency are inversely proportional
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White light is not split up by different particles in the air (the exception are water droplets in a rainbow, the blue sky and the orange and red of sunsets and sunrises). Objects outside the atmosphere reflect back their colors, without white light being broken up by air. The moon is yellow, Mars is red and look at all the colors of Jupiter. \n\n\nWhite light is made up (already contains) the different colors of the visible light spectrum: Red Orange Yellow Green Blue Indigo Violet. (Roy Green bit Iris Vaughn is a mmemonic to remember the colors) \n\nWhat distinguished the different colors in the spectrum is their wavelength. When white light hits an object like grass or wood only the color you see the object as, is reflected, the other colors are absorbed.
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Although they are part of the same phenomenon, heat and light are at different wavelengths; Imagine a Rainbow going from Red to Blue, the radiation wavelengths behave in a similar way, thus, the heat from the Sun is derived from the "red" end of the spectrum, the Light from the Blue end all travelling together at the same velocity.
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When light falls onto an object a part of the spectrum is reflected and another part is absorbed. Depending on the (micro)texture of the object, different parts of the spectrum are reflected and we sense another color. Since there is a differennce in microtexture between wet and dry clothes, we experience a slightly different color.
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Some properties of the electromagnetic spectrum is that all waves in this spectrum travel at the speed of light.  The spectrum varies by wavelength and also energy, from gamma rays -> xrays ->ultraviolet ->visible light -> infared ->microwave ->radio.  with gamma having the highest energy with the smallest wavelength and radio having the lowest energy with the largest wavelength.  \n\nHope this helps
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Simple answer:\n\nThe rods and cones in our eyes pick up on the different waves in light. The primary colors of light are:\nGreen\nRed\nBlue\nWith the combination of these different wavelengths of light we can get any of the other colors including yellow.\n\nPigments work different. Whereas the colors we recieve from  TV's and lightbulbs is by the combination or "addition" of wavelengths of light, pigmentation occurs by "subtraction" of light and it also has different primary colors. The primary colors of pigments (any object is seen by pigments whereas a TV's colors works by wavelenths of light rather than pigments) are:\nYellow\nBlue \nRed\nAnd those colors are seen by subtration meaning the light hits the particular object and every color gets absorbed except whatever color get reflected and that is the color we see.\n\nhope this helps.
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There are two aspects to color:  pigment and wavelength.  Pigment is an aspect of the object we're talking about when we say "what color is it?"  Wavelength is an aspect of light, which is made up of different wavelengths.  White light contains all the possible wavelengths.  \n\nWhen light hits pigment, some of these wavelengths are absorbed and some are reflected.  A black pigment absorbs all the wavelengths; no color is reflected, so there is the absence of color--black.  When something looks red, it is because wavelengths in the red spectrum  of light are being reflected.  \n\nThings look different in different lights because not all light is white light.  Something will look different under a light bulb than under sunlight.\n\nLisaJay\n\nhttp://www.eclecticdetective.blogspot.com
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The color of an object affects how much light an object absorbs or reflects.  The spectrum of visible light are seperated in to additive colors and subtractive colors.  Additive colors reflect light and the primary additive colors are Red, Blue, and Green.  The Primary Subtractive Colors also known as the (Primary Pigments) absorb light and they are Yellow, Cyan, and Magenta.  When you mix all primary additive colors you will get white and when you mix all subtractive colors you get black, which means black absorbs the most light, which means it aborbs the most energy.
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the speed of light(radiation) is a constant and equals the wavelength times the frequency. As wavelength gets longer the freq goes down and vice versa.