Color and Light
Students will investigate how objects absorb and reflect light to produce the colors we perceive.
Key Questions
- Explain how the interaction of light with matter creates color.
- Differentiate between additive and subtractive color mixing.
- Predict how an object's perceived color changes under different light sources.
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