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Stacking two coloured filters in a beam of light is

  • A.subtractive, since each removes part of the spectrum
  • B.additive, since the two colours combine in the beam
  • C.neither, since filters do not change the colour
  • D.additive at low intensity and subtractive at high

Answer: A

Correct answer: subtractive, since each removes part of the spectrum

The light must pass through both filters, so what emerges is what neither absorbed - the transmittances multiply. A cyan and a yellow filter together pass only green, and cyan with magenta and yellow together pass almost nothing. Superimposing the beams of two coloured lamps would be the additive case.

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