How does colour of object affect how much energy it will absorb when placed in light/sunlight?
The color of the objects which we see are largely due to the way those objects interact with light and ultimately reflect or transmit it to our eyes. The color of an object is not actually within the object itself; rather, the color is in the light which shines upon it and isultimately reflected or transmitted to our eyes. We know that the visible light spectrum consists of a range of frequencies, each of which corresponds to a specific color. When visible light strikes an object and a specific frequency becomes absorbed, that frequency of light will never make it to our eyes. Any visible light which strikes the object and becomes reflected or transmitted to our eyes will contribute to the color appearance of that object. So the color is not in the object itself, but in the light which strikes the object. The only role that the object plays is that it might contain atoms capable of absorbing one or more frequencies of the visible light which shine upon it. So if an object absorbs all o
