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Duration
20 minutes
Production Aim
This programme is a teaching resource produced especially for enriching the
classroom teaching of the Syllabus for Science (Secondary 1 3) prepared by
the Curriculum Development Council (1998).
The content of the programme serves to illustrate the following parts of the
Syllabus:
Unit 15 Light, Colours and Beyond
Topic 15.3 - Colour
Key Points
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Content Outline
The programme is divided into 8 segments:
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Illusion of light
Interesting examples are used to illustrate colours of different objects in nature.
A vivid description of how Issac Newton discovered colours using a prism is
presented by animation.
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Rainbow
The formation of rainbow is due to the numerous water droplets in the
atmosphere. The water droplets suspended in the atmosphere act like a
prism. When sunlight enters into a water droplet, it is refracted once. It is then
reflected within the droplet and refracted once again when it emerges from
the
droplet. Light rays of different colours are refracted to varying degrees. Red light
is the least refracted and purple light is the most refracted. After two refractions,
the white light is turned into a seven-colour spectrum.
The production of artificial rainbow is demonstrated in this segment.
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Colour television
The millions of colours on a colour TV screen are produced by mixing red,
blue and green colours. There are three different types of phosphor strips on the
TV screen. When an electron beam falls on the phosphor strips, the strips can
show red, blue or green light. Each strip is composed of small dots which are
so small that they can not been seen by a naked eye. Human eye cannot
distinguish the light from each individual dot. Colours can thus be seen as the
formation by the mixture of the three colour lights.
The basic principles of electron guns are illustrated by animation in this
segment.
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Sense of colour
The eyes can distinguish different colours. This is known as the sense of
colour. There are two types of light sensitive cells on the retina: the rods and
the cones. The sense of colour is produced when the cone cells of the eyeball
are activated. Every cone senses one of the colours red, blue or green. They
react to different coloured light in different ways to produce the sensation of
colour perception. These three colour elements can be found on the retina of a
man of normal vision. However, if two elements are missing, all objects will
appear to be grey in colour. This is the most serious type of colour vision
impairment and is clinically known as total colour blindness. If one element
is missing, the man cannot identify that particular colour. It is known as colour
blindness of that particular colour.
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Suggested Activities
(The following activities are suggested for teachers reference only. The teacher
may wish to use the activities according to students abilities, the learning
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The teacher can discuss with students why objects appear in different colours.
The teacher can lead students to find out the physical phenomenon which is
related to the formation of rainbow.
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