If all light waves are reflected off a medium, what color will be perceived?
Geography · Middle School · Mon Jan 18 2021
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If all light waves are reflected off a medium, and no wavelengths are absorbed, the perceived color will be white. White light is a combination of all the colors in the visible spectrum. When incident light is reflected off a surface, and all the wavelengths are reflected equally, the human eye perceives the combination of these wavelengths as white. This is in contrast to an object that absorbs certain wavelengths and reflects others, which gives rise to the perception of specific colors.