Red Light Absorption

“Is my red the same as your red?”— you’ve most likely posed some form of this inquiry once in your life, but the color of an object is much more expansive and complex that what humans observe on a day-to-day basis. That red strawberry you see is not built with red particles that look red through every light and spectrum it is observed through. Instead, how we perceive the light bouncing off the subatomic particles within the various substances and elements which we glance upon is what affects their color. Color is a combination of the absorption of various wavelengths of visible light across the color spectrum and the atomic emissions spectrum, the change of quantized energy levels in the reaction between photons and electrons, and the resulting

If an atom re-emits the light it receives immediately with the same frequency, the process is known as scattering. If the energy is radiated off with a varrying frequency, its called flouresence. The absorption spectra looks more like a scale of light the blends the rainbow in the visible portion, looks pink in ultraviolet, and red in the infared. Lines of frequency show up on top of the cale, including the non-visible sections, so the whole image results in black lines against a colored background, instead of the atomic

When an electron jumps, it often returns to its ground state and also absorbs light, while releases heat. While light and heat dirrectly alighn, and can be transfered to kinetic energy through the equation , which predicts the total energy in reference to the atom or whole object’s mass, volume, and frequency of wavelengths. If a molecule is confined from releasing photons, then the Principle Quantum energy levels and their respective electon amounts can be devised. All variables involved depend on n (the energy level), m (the mass of the molecule), and l (the length of confinment). Across atomic bonds photons travel with higher energy once met with the free, or valance electrons. The distance between energy levels is inversly proporionational to the mass and length of confines. Therefore, a low energy particle in a small container would have a lower mass. Most substances have no color because the electron traveled a space in which the photon produced has wavelengths too high for the visible light spectrum. If the atom(s) garners a large atomic diamter and a higher mass, it is more likely that the photons released are visible. The Free Electron Model helps take into account valance electrons traveling freely from an ion, and their effect on the jumping