THE TECHNOLOGY OF LIGHTING

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Visual Effect of Light

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Good Lighting

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Visible Light
Properties of Light
Wavelength perception of color Intensity(amplitude) perception of brightness

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Wave length

Frequency

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Propagation velocity depends on wave type, elasticity of the medium And its rigidity. If the medium is homogeneous and isotropic, propagation Velocity is the same in all directions. For example, sound propagation velocity in the air, at 20 degrees C, is That of 343.5 m/s, whereas electromagnetic waves propagation velocity In the vacuum is equivalent to 300 000 km/s. The fundamental equation which relates propagation velocity to wave Length is:

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Frequency Spectrum
The electromagnetic spectrum: colors and wavelengths visible to humans

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Dual Nature of Light

1. Corpuscular theory of light (Newton). 2. Wave theory of light (Christian Huygens & Robert Hooke). Light has a dual nature. On the one hand, light propagation phenomena find a better explanation within Maxwell electromagnetic theory (electromagnetic wave fundamental nature). On the other hand mutual action between light and matter, in the process of absorption and emission is a photoelectric phenomenon (corpuscular nature).

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The Human Eye

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The Colour

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Color Temperature
Color Temperature is an expression used to indicate the Color of a source of light by comparing it with a black body Color, that is to say a theoretical perfect radiator.

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Color Rendering Index

Color Rendering Index (R) characterizes the chromatic reproduction Capacity of objects illuminated with a source of light.

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