LIGHT DISPERSION

RAINBOW
LIGHT SCATTERING
 LIGHT SCATTERING
When different colour of light absorbed and
reflect at different rate by molecules of gas,
water vapour, and dust particles.
Blue component travel slowest, so that blue
component is scattered most, and hence the
sky looks blue in the day.
Red component travel fastest, so it scattered
less
 During sunset
When the sun is lower, sunlight travels a longer
distance to reach us.
This means the sunlight passes through a thicker layer
of atmosphere
By the time the light reaches us, most of the blue,
indigo, and violet light is scattered away. Hence only
the red, orange and yellow light which are less
scattered reach our eyes
KBAT: What happen to the sunset if the air is polluted?
 The addition and substraction of coloured
light
Colours can be classified into two groups;
primary and secondary colours
Primary colours; colour that cannot be
produced by mixing other colours
Red
Green
Blue
 Secondary colours; colours that can be
obtained by adding any two of primary colours
Yellow
Magenta
Cyan
Addition of coloured light
Primary + primary colour = secondary colour
colour
Red (R) Blue (B) Magenta (Mag)

Red (R) Green (G) Yellow (Y)

Blue (B) Green (G) Cyan (C)

Red + Blue + Green = white

 Substraction of coloured light
The absorption of coloured lights by a filter
blue

red

green
MAGENTA
red
BLUE

YELLOW
RED
GREEN

CYAN
BLUE
GREEN
SUBSTRACTION OF COLOURED LIGHT BY
PRIMARY FILTER
Cahaya biru dari
cahaya putih
dibenarkan melalui
penapis biru

Cahaya merah dari

cahaya putih dan
merah dibenarkan
melalui penapis
merah

Cahaya hijau dari

cahaya putih dan hijau
dibenarkan melalui
penapis hijau
Substraction of light by coloured object

Red object absorb another magenta object absorb another colour but
colour but reflect the red reflect the magenta colour to the observer.
colour to the observer. Object Object look magenta
look red