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brendan_foo
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I'm not really sure about such things, but this is my question.
Say a photon of white light in incident on an object which is instrinically a blue object, just any regular blue object. Now (naturally) you see light (a photon corresponding with a wavelength that matches the blue region) that is blue. Does the incident photon energies an electron in an atom of the object, and upon return to its previous electronic state, a photon with wavelength corresponding with the blue colour is emitted...right?!
What happens to the remainder of the energy... I mean in physics i was always taught that the object would "absorb" the other colours and release only the one corresponding to the colour of the object..does this 'light as a particle' theory explain this and account for the energy remainder.
Cheers
Say a photon of white light in incident on an object which is instrinically a blue object, just any regular blue object. Now (naturally) you see light (a photon corresponding with a wavelength that matches the blue region) that is blue. Does the incident photon energies an electron in an atom of the object, and upon return to its previous electronic state, a photon with wavelength corresponding with the blue colour is emitted...right?!
What happens to the remainder of the energy... I mean in physics i was always taught that the object would "absorb" the other colours and release only the one corresponding to the colour of the object..does this 'light as a particle' theory explain this and account for the energy remainder.
Cheers