TRANSPARENT
Jenna Brown 4th period
What does Transparent mean?
Simple meaning- You can see right through the transparent object or substance.
Transparent objects are clear!
A clear fish bowl
Clear dice
Clear light bulb
-For an object to be transparent, the light must be emitted in the same direction with the same wavelength as initially. When light strikes a brick, some is reflected in other directions, and the rest is re-emitted in longer, non-visible wavelengths. That is why a brick is opaque to visible light.
What is the difference between white objects and transparent objects as far as photons are concerned?
-A white object indeed absorbs photons, since you can't make light pass through. It is white because the absorbed photons are re-emitted and the absorption/re-emission process efficiency is more or less the same for all the visible wavelength: red light is re-emitted with the same rate as blue light. Of course the object will look white as long as you are illuminating it with white light. BUT, some material can be both transparent and white.
Take a cloud for instance. Clouds can be pretty white, but they consist entirely of transparent water droplets.
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