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Which color has the greater intensity?

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13y ago

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A rough definition of intensity (how intense) a light is might be how bright (the brightness) the light is. Intensity speaks to the luminance or luminosity of the light source. Under that definition, either red or blue light could be more intense. But if the information regarding the energy of light according to its color (or its wavelength or frequency), we would find that a photon of blue light has more energy than a photon of red light. Blue light has a shorter wavelength or higher frequency, and electromagnetic energy with higher frequency or shorter wavelength has more energy than light of the same intensity but of lower frequency or longer wavelength.

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Intensity (in physics) is a measure of power per unit area. Blue light is more energetic than red light and thefore the blue end of the specturm would have the greater intensity.

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