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Past exam of the physics course of the year 1 of the natural sciences course of the University of Cambridge 2013 Paper 1 Section D D12 b Solution by
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The first zero of each colour is at . Blue therefore reaches its first zero closer to the axis than the reference green wavelength, and red reaches it farther away. At the reference colour is absent, while other wavelengths remain: there is no common black first minimum in white light. Adjacent regions change hue as different colour minima pass through them; wavelengths longer than the reference are still in their central maxima and tend to dominate near its first zero. The exact hue depends on the incident spectrum and spectral response.
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