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Visible Light

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Visible Light

Visible light is used to see the world around us.

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Visible light spectrum

  • Traditionally, we say that there are seven colours of light in the spectrum.
  • Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet.
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Uses

  • We use visible light to see the world around us and in fibre optics.
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Explanation

  • We use visible light in optical fibres because it can be totally internally reflected.
  • This means that we can transmit signals (information) along optical fibres without the signals (information) getting lost.

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