Color Vision Flashcards
Light Travels in straight line with approx. speed of
299,792,458 m/s
longest
wavelength and lowest frequency
Red
shortest
wavelength and highest frequency
Violet
Mass-less particles that are electrical field traveling through space
Photon
Crest to crest or trough to trough
Wavelength
Height of the crest or depth of each trough
Amplitude
Number of wavelength within a period of time, measured n cycles per second.
Frequency
measured in electron volts
Energy
The narrow portion within the electromagnetic
spectrum that can be seen by the human eye.
Visible spectrum
identified the ROYGBIV colors that
make up the visible spectrum.
Newton
Optics
documented Newton’s discoveries from his
experiments passing light through a prism
Dispersion
That aspect of things that is caused by
different qualities of the light reflected or
emitted by an object, definable by the
observer in terms of: hue, lightness, and
saturation.
Colors
That characteristic of light by which an
individual is made aware of the objects
through the receptors of the eye, definable by
the observer in terms of
Wavelength, luminance and purity
the familiar color’s name or family and
directly linked to the wavelength.
Hue
the apparent intensity of color; the darkness
(shade) or lightness (tint) of a color (0%
lightness means black); As the intensity
increases – all hues appear yellow-white while
as intensity decreases – all hues appear
achromatic.
Luminosity
