Question

Maddi is wearing a blue shirt. Which of the following explains why we see her shirt as blue? Your answer: It absorbs only blue light and reflects all other colors. It reflects only blue light and absorbs all other colors. It refracts only blue light and absorbs all other colors. It absorbs all other colors and only refracts blue light.

Answer 1

It reflects only blue light and absorbs all other colors

Step-by-step explanation:

When white light enters and bounces off an object, the process is referred to as reflection.

Refraction on the other hand refers to, bending of light when it passes from one medium to another.

VIBGYOR is an abbreviation for the colors of spectrum which stands for violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow orange and red. Of the colors white light splits into, Violet has the highest frequency and the lowest wavelength while red has the lowest frequency but highest wavelength.

So, a T- shirt appears blue since when white light hits it, it bounces off and disperses into different colors. Of all the colors of the spectrum, the T shirt absorbs colors towards orange-red wavelength side, and does not absorb blue which it reflects back. The color which gets reflected back is the color we see.

Answer 2

Answer: It reflects blue light and absorbs all the other colors.

Step-by-step explanation:

Maddi is wearing a blue colored shirt, she is able to see the shirt blue because only blue color is reflected by the shirt and is seen by the eyes of the observer and rest all the colors are absorbed.

The molecules of the dye of blue color in the shirt absorbed the wavelength of blue color from the spectrum. Rest of the colors are absorbed by the dye.

This is the reason why we can see different objects of different color. The respective objects reflects the different wavelength from the spectrum giving it red, blue, green, violet, yellow, orange color.

Hence, the correct answer is option B