23nov2008

i'm trying to understand, how an object gets its color. lying the bed last night, i narrowed it down to the frequencies/wavelengths of the contituents of the visible light spectrum and the frequencies of the vibration of the atoms electrons attached to the atoms of different elements of the periodic table. beyond that, my quest is following the following links [pun unintended ;-)].

http://www.newton.dep.anl.gov/archive.htm

http://www.pa.msu.edu/sciencet/ask_st/040892.html

Physics classroom tutorial. 

Lesson 2(light absorbtion, reflection & transmission)  link [the answer lies in this link!]

Lesson 2(electromagnetic & visible spectra) link

while still on the topic, colors, try mixing/painting red, blue & green together and see if u get white! i've tried it.

xtra link - i haven't read this one yet.