Physics
| color | wavelength interval | frequency interval |
|---|---|---|
| red | ~ 700–635 nm | ~ 430–480 THz |
| orange | ~ 635–590 nm | ~ 480–510 THz |
| yellow | ~ 590–560 nm | ~ 510–540 THz |
| green | ~ 560–490 nm | ~ 540–610 THz |
| blue | ~ 490–450 nm | ~ 610–670 THz |
| violet | ~ 450–400 nm | ~ 670–750 THz |
| Color |
(nm) |
(THz) |
(μm−1) |
(eV) |
(kJ mol−1) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Infrared | >1000 | <300 | <1.00 | <1.24 | <120 |
| Red | 700 | 428 | 1.43 | 1.77 | 171 |
| Orange | 620 | 484 | 1.61 | 2.00 | 193 |
| Yellow | 580 | 517 | 1.72 | 2.14 | 206 |
| Green | 530 | 566 | 1.89 | 2.34 | 226 |
| Blue | 470 | 638 | 2.13 | 2.64 | 254 |
| Violet | 420 | 714 | 2.38 | 2.95 | 285 |
| Near ultraviolet | 300 | 1000 | 3.33 | 4.15 | 400 |
| Far ultraviolet | <200 | >1500 | >5.00 | >6.20 | >598 |
Electromagnetic radiation is characterized by its wavelength (or frequency) and its intensity. When the wavelength is within the visible spectrum (the range of wavelengths humans can perceive, approximately from 390 nm to 750 nm), it is known as "visible light".
Most light sources emit light at many different wavelengths; a source's spectrum is a distribution giving its intensity at each wavelength. Although the spectrum of light arriving at the eye from a given direction determines the color sensation in that direction, there are many more possible spectral combinations than color sensations. In fact, one may formally define a color as a class of spectra that give rise to the same color sensation, although such classes would vary widely among different species, and to a lesser extent among individuals within the same species. In each such class the members are called metamers of the color in question.
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“He who is conversant with the supernal powers will not worship these inferior deities of the wind, waves, tide, and sunshine. But we would not disparage the importance of such calculations as we have described. They are truths in physics because they are true in ethics.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
“We must be physicists in order ... to be creative since so far codes of values and ideals have been constructed in ignorance of physics or even in contradiction to physics.”
—Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)
“But this invites the occult mind,
Cancels our physics with a sneer,
And spatters all we knew of denouement
Across the expedient and wicked stones.”
—Karl Shapiro (b. 1913)