The Color of Skin
• Color of skin doesn’t effect the way each wavelength reflects
• Only the amount of radiation differs in different skin colors
• Caucasians like Stephen have skin that reflects more radiation than darker races like Tian and Narayan
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Objects with Colors
• The yellow can and blue book reflect with more radiation than the others
• The book is centered around the blue and the can has its max near yellow.
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Organic Plant Material
• The holly and the bush have similar spectrums but the holly has weaker radiation than the bush
• The lily flower has a strong maximum in the red and then a weaker one in the blue it also has a similar structure in the near infrared as the holly leaf
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Differences in Red• Both reflect strongly
near 640 nm which denotes the reddish color
• The flower has a second maximum near the 450 nm band which would mean there is also more of a blue color explaining the pinkish hue
• The red coffee cup appears to have less reflected radiation but has close to only one maximum which makes it more red than the lily flower.
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Morning Solar spectrum• At 7:48 am the spectrum
was similar to that of the 8:19 am but at 8:16 am it was stronger
• From 8:30 and on there was a weaker solar spectrum
• These changes are from the differing amounts of cloud cover that existed
• The more clouds there were the more the light was scattered to our eyes/instruments
• At 748 however it was cloudy but the clouds were thicker and the radiation was getting slightly more attenuated in the cloud
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9:05 Increase in Solar Spectrum• At 9:00 am to 9:05
am the solar spectrum increased but by 9:10 am it began to decrease towards the point it was at 8:52 am
• On the next slide the visible reason is that the sun is to the east and the clouds above reflect/scatter the light towards our eyes/instruments
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Midday Cirrus Clouds• 12:28 pm is stronger
than 12:08 pm before it but as well as 13:08 pm after it
• The cirrus clouds that were around due to the contrails from airplanes caused the change
• One contrail crossed overhead and scattered the radiation towards our instruments
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