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Sep 18, 2012 · The process is relatively simple. Light strikes an object and is reflected towards our eyes. Our eyes detect the light and send electrochemical impulses to our brains visual cortex. Here our brain interpretation these impulses and creates a visual representation of the object, from which the light originates.
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When we're very young, we have a very simple idea about light: theworld is either light or dark and we can change from one to the otherjust by flicking a switch on the wall. But we soon learn that light ismore complex than this. Light arrives on our planet after a speedy trip from the Sun, 149 million km (93 million miles away). Light travels at186...
For hundreds of years, scientists have argued over whether light isreally a wave at all. Back in the 17th century, the brilliant Englishscientist Sir Isaac Newton (1642–1727)—one of the first people to studythe matter in detail—thought light was a stream of "corpuscles" or particles.But his great rival, a no-less-brilliant Dutchman named Christiaan...
Light waves (let's assume they are indeed waves for now) behave infour particularly interesting and useful ways that we describe asreflection, refraction, diffraction, and interference.
Aug 10, 2016 · All electromagnetic radiation is light, but we can only see a small portion of this radiation—the portion we call visible light. Cone-shaped cells in our eyes act as receivers tuned to the wavelengths in this narrow band of the spectrum. Other portions of the spectrum have wavelengths too large or too small and energetic for the biological ...
Despite the apparent oxymoron, we humans can’t see light. We can only see objects that are illuminated by light, not the light itself. The light-sensitive components of our eyes – the so-called rods and cones that respond favourably to a tiny range of radiation within the much broader electromagnetic spectrum – don’t see the radiation at all, despite what it says on the box.
Light has the properties of waves. Like ocean waves, light waves have crests and troughs. The distance between one crest and the next, which is the same as the distance between one trough and the next, is called the wavelength. The frequency of a wave is the number of crests (or troughs) that pass a point in one second.
Explore this timeline to discover key advances in ideas about light, how we see and how we perceive the world around us. Teachers using these resources In this online PD session, Teachers using the Hub – Light and sight in the classroom , secondary teacher Steve Chrystall talks about the Science Learning Hub’s light and sight resources and how he used them to teach year 9 and 10 students.
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Title: Light. Light is a form of energy. When we say light, we mean the energy that we can detect with our eyes. When light enters our eyes, our brain interprets this into images we can ‘see ...
