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What is color? - Colm Kelleher

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Have you ever wondered what color is? In this first installment of a series on light, Colm Kelleher describes the physics behind colors-- why the colors we see are related to the period of motion and the frequency of waves.

White objects reflect all colors of light and black objects absorb all colors of light.

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Meet The Creators

  • Director Alex Rupert, Bernard Tan
  • Educator Colm Kelleher
  • Narrator Colm Kelleher

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