Nt1310 Unit 9 Lab Report

Semester 1 Extra Credit for Unit 1 Test: Ch. 31 Diffraction and Interference The idea that wave fronts from light are made up of tinier wave fronts was originated from the Dutch mathematician and scientist Christian Huygens. Every point acts like a new source of waves from the light. Huygens’ principle states that every point on any wave front can be regarded as a new point source of light.

There is a stunning variety of photoreceptor organs, but every animal uses the same kind of light-capturing molecule called an opsin. Insects, humans, and clams all use opsins and the history of human eyes can be traced through differences in the structure of these molecules. The structure of opsins is similar to parts of certain molecules in bacteria. The precise molecular similarities in this molecule suggest a shared history with bacteria. Modified pieces of ancient bacteria lie inside human retinas, helping people to see.

Many people like to use tanning beds to sustain a nice summer tan all year round. Tanning beds are beds that use ultraviolet rays (UV) to give the user a cosmetic tan. Each suntanning bed contains a set of Fluorescent lights to shine on the user giving them the sun kissed look.

The mantis shrimp actually cannot distinguish different colors with similar wavelengths due to the fact that they don’t combine colors to create other, they just each color receptor as the true color of the object. However, this has not stopped researchers trying to micic its’ eyes. The main part that they want to mimic is the capability of seeing polarized light. Cancer cells emit polarized light, and being able to see it using a small camera would allow cancer detection to be much more accurate. By mimicking its eyes, they

Opsins: it 's a protein in eye retina and its sensitive to the light, its involved in sending signals when exposure to light and become visual images. Spectrum: it 's a group of colors such as in rainbow, caused by the different components of

From the spectroscope, we could the see different clearer clusters of spectra from various sources of light and elements. These instruments allow you to look at forms of visible light. Describe an experience that told you there were other forms of radiation that affect us which we are not able to observe directly. From the infrared selfie, we could see other forms

Lighting: Light is crucial for the perception and recognition of color. It’s also necessary to have a colored surface from which light can be reflected into the eyes. The perception of color is influenced or altered by the change in the wavelengths of light contained in this reflected light and their relative power. Not all people can perceive colors, visually impaired people may not be able to perceive some or all colors, as well as some people who are not recognized as visually impaired but also cannot perceive them.

Introduction Numerous species have evolved to exhibit some form of camouflage, which is an adaptation that allows species to blend in with certain aspects of their environment. This impressive ability has become a common and taxonomically widespread adaptation that numerous prey species have adopted to reduce the likelihood of being either detected or recognized by predators. The theory of Natural Selection by Charles Darwin suggests that "those individuals who possess superior physical, behavioral, or other attributes are more likely to survive than those which are not so well endowed." (CITE) Having this ability increases the chances of a species probability of survival by hiding from predators.

An example of sensory accommodation would be when students jump or squint their eyes because of the light that was turned on, the students will adapt to the light afterwards. The two types of visual sensory receptors are the rods and cones; Rods are used for no color and are sensitive to light and cones are for color and are sensitive to bright colors. The visual pathway from the eye to the brain in order starts with the optic nerve then to the optic chiasm then to the thalamus then to the visual cortex.

It is not rocket science that there is biological reaction from our body to light. This happens every day and the best example is our eyes which are in general photosensitive. As a matter of fact, the whole vision is just light hitting the retinas which then create a chemical reaction which allows everyone to see. One of the simpler examples is when sunlight hits our skin, there is a biochemical reaction to it as vitamin D synthesizes. This also applies to sun tans where sun stimulates melanocytes to multiply making the skin brown.

Huaqing Ying Professor Frank Mayer PHS 208 Extra Credit-Research Paper Why animals’ eyes turn green in the dark I pet a cat when I lived with my parents, and she grows up with me for about five years. When I was young, I always wondered why her eyes glowed when she was hiding in a dark corner. So I did some research. Why animals’ eyes have colors The cat's eyes are similar to the human eye, and it also structure with the cornea, iris, lens, retina, and so on.

Colorful World Tutorial To summarize what I learned in the Colorful World tutorial, the current theory of color vision come from the two predominant scientific theories from Hering’s and Young-Helmholtz. The two theories have been combined to create the current unified theory of color vision that the first stage of color processing incorporates the trichromatic theory on how color is processed through cones and the second stage involves the opponent processing theory. Our tutorial and our text go into a great deal of detail on the dynamics of color vision and how we experience color. Our text states that “Our perception of color is primarily determined by the wavelength of light that an object reflects”.

Trichromatic theory first proposed Thomas Young and later modified by Hermann Von Helmholtz proposed three types of cones photoreceptors knowns as red cones, green cones and blue cones. The cones are sensitive to specify wavelengths of light that later fire the signal to the brain. Where by the combination of cones and the rate of firing determine the color will been sight. These theories were test through psychophysical color matching experiment (Figure 1), to study the light wavelength signaled by activity of three receptor mechanisms. The research identify that the three different cones have differ maximal sensitivity that corresponds to three different color.

Metaphysical issues of consciousness Before defining “Metaphysical issues of consciousness”, we need to define terms 'metaphysics' and 'consciousness' separately. Metaphysics The word metaphysics derive from the Greek word (meta- “beyond”, “upon”, “after”) and (Physics) i.e. beyond the physics. Metaphysics is the questions about the fundamental nature of reality. It explains the fundamental notions by which people understand the world.

Colour has three unique components which differ the chromatic from achromatic light, they are hue, saturation and intensity. Reporting a colour on these terms can be highly individual, but each can be illustrated by examining the spectrum. Naturally occurring colours are not just light at one wavelength, they contains a wide range of wavelengths. A colour’s "hue" tells which wavelength standout to be most prominent. The below spectrum likely to be perceived as bluish, even though it has wavelengths throughout