I'm sorry to ask such a geeky question, but this is the sort of stuff engineering students do on weekends.
They say the Kelvin rating on light bulbs is a measure of the color of the light. Well the Kelvin I know is a temperature scale like Fahrenheit or Celsius. Are the two related? I thought it might have something to do EM wavelengths corresponding to black-body radiation at that temperature.
If my assumption is correct then a 5800K bulb matches the light from the sun (generally speaking) better than any else. Below this gets bad real quick and above this get gets bad - but not as quick.
Any thoughts?
They say the Kelvin rating on light bulbs is a measure of the color of the light. Well the Kelvin I know is a temperature scale like Fahrenheit or Celsius. Are the two related? I thought it might have something to do EM wavelengths corresponding to black-body radiation at that temperature.
If my assumption is correct then a 5800K bulb matches the light from the sun (generally speaking) better than any else. Below this gets bad real quick and above this get gets bad - but not as quick.
Any thoughts?