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CHAPTER 12 THE COLORS

CHAPTER 12

The Colors

12.1 Color and Its Human Perception

White, black, darkness, and light have been the focus of chapter 11. Section
10.3.3 addressed the human eye and its color vision. We may now step into yet
more unexplored territory and attempt to find strange coincidences associated

with names given to colors in biblical Hebrew.
The colors of the visible spectrum, called the elementary colors , are red, orange,
yellow, green, cyan (green-blue), blue, and violet (seven colors, in an increasing
order of wave frequency ).
Table 12.1 presents approximate intervals for the wavelength and wave

frequency of these colors.
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In the table, wavelength is given in nanometer (1 nm = 10 meter), and wave

frequency is given in terahertz (1 Hz equals one cycle per second, and a terahertz,

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or THz, is equal 10 Hz).
The conversion formula from one scale to the other is simple, and is character-
istic to any wave.
(Wavelength)X(Wave frequency) = Wave velocity

All electromagnetic radiation advances at the speed of light (about 300,000

kilometers per second). Therefore, we have for conversion from wavelength to
wave frequency :
Wave frequency (THz) = [3 / (Wavelength, nm)] x 10 5

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