Hierarchy of Colors in Relation to the Week

Energy of Visible Light 5

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This lesson will help you to understand concepts about light. After going through
this lesson, you are expected to explain the hierarchy of colors in relation to energy of
visible light.
Light is composed of colors of different frequencies and wavelengths and the
arrangement of colors of light shows the order of the color’s corresponding energy.
ROYGBIV is the only part of the spectrum that can be seen by the naked eye. A ray of white
light that passes through a prism is dispersed into the visible spec- trum. Red light is
refracted the least, and purple light is refracted the most. This is because the speed of the
various wavelengths in glass is different, slowest for violet light and fastest for red light.
Red light has the lowest frequency and ener- gy but the longest wavelength compared to
other visible spectrum. Violet light has the highest frequency and energy but the shortest
wavelength compared to other visible spectrum.
Using the diagram and the electromagnetic spectrum, you can see that vio- let color
has the shortest wavelength but highest frequency and the greatest amount of energy while
red color has the longest wavelength, lowest frequency and least amount of energy. Can you
tell the relationship between frequency and wavelength of light ? Or the relationship
between wavelength and the amount of energy?

The electromagnetic spectrum is important to astronomers because celestial objects

emit waves in all the different regions of the spectrum. Visible light is very small fraction of
the visible spectrum.
At homes, light carries information in many ways. Cell phones use light to send and
receive calls and messages. Wireless routers use light to send pictures of your family in
Facebook from the internet to your computer. Car radios use light to receive music from
nearby radio stations. Even in nature, light carries many kinds of information. Telescopes
are light collectors, and everything we know from Hubble is because of light. Since we are
not able to travel to a star or take samples from a faraway galaxy, we must depend on
electromagnetic radiation — light — to carry information to us from distant objects in
space.
The Hubble Space Telescope can view objects in more than just visible light, including
ultraviolet, visible and infrared light. These observations enable astron- omers to
determine certain physical characteristics of objects, such as their tem- perature,
composition and velocity

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 Learning Task No. 1: Look at the given diagram of the glass prism below. This tells about
the dispersion of light. Using the diagram, answer the given questions below.

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1. Based on the figure, what is the arrangement of colors from top to bottom? The arrangement of
colors of light shows the order of the color’s corresponding energy
2. Based on the concepts learned and by looking at the diagram, what are the colors
that have lower energy than the color blue? Red, Orange, Yellow and Green.
3. What are the color/s that have higher energy than the color red? Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue,
Indigo, Violet
4. What are the color/s that have a higher frequency than the color red? Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo,
Violet
5. Which of the two colors: green or orange has the higher energy? Higher frequency? Longer
wavelength? Green has the higher energy and frequency while orange has the longer
wavelength

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Learning Task No. 2: Examine the diagram showing the electromagnetic spec-
trum. Answer the guide questions based on your analysis of the diagram.

Guide Questions:
1. By looking on to the details giv-
en above in the diagram, what are the seven identified components of the
electromagnetic spectrum? Radio, Microwave, Infrared, Visible, Ultraviolet, X-ray, Gamma Ray

2. By studying the diagram of the electromagnetic spectrum, what is the “light” that is
found at the very middle? Visible

3. By looking at the visible light, what specific color of light has the longest
wavelength? How about the shortest wavelength. Red has the longest
wavelength while Violet has the shortest wavelength

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Learning Task No. 3: Do the activity below. Write your
answer in a sperate sheet of paper.
1. Turn off the lights to dim your living
room.
2. Hold a CD and shine it with a
flashlight.
3. Observe what will happen.
4. What did you find out? The white light
from the sun reflects on the surface of the cd and due to diffraction the
light spreads and interference to the wall. Each color of white light has a
different wavelength for this and is analyzed in the colors of the rainbow

Learning Task No. 4: Write your reflection regarding

the activity in a separate sheet of paper.

I understand that when the light reflects off or passes through something with
many small ridges or scratches, you often get rainbow colors and interesting
patterns. These are called interference patterns. .
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I realized that When light waves reflect off the ridges on your CD, they
overlap and interfere with each other. Sometimes the waves add together,
making certain colors brighter, and sometimes they cancel each other,
taking certain colors away .

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Learning Task No. 5: Choose the letter of the best answer.
Write your answer on a separate sheet of paper.

1. Which of the following is TRUE about the colors of light?

A. The shorter the wavelength, the lesser the energy.
B. The lower the wavelength, the lesser the refractive index.
C. The longer the wavelength, the greater the energy.
D. The higher the wavelength, the lesser the refractive index.

2. What happens to the light particles when light hits an uneven surface?
A. They are reflected off in a straight line.
B. They are scattered in many directions.
C. They are absorbed by the surface
D. They pass through the surface

3. As a ray of white light passes through a prism, dispersion

occurs. Which among the color of the visible spectrum refracted
the MOST?
A. Yellow C. Green
B. Red D. Violet

4. Light is composed of different frequencies and wavelengths.

Which among the colors of white light has the shortest
wavelength and highest frequency?
A. Blue C. Violet
B. Indigo D. Green

5. Which of the following wavelength order of visible light are from shortest to
longest?
A. BIV G ROY C. ROY G BIV
B. GIV R YOB D. VIB G YOR