why do dark colours become warmer than light colours when exposed to light?
and are solar pannels coloured, or clear?
When you look at an object you see the light that is reflected off the object. When you look at a white object you are seeing the whole light spectrum,
(however the reason that white objects do absorb some heat is that they aren’t perfectly white and reflect most of the light but not all)
However black objects absorb all the light. So darker objects absorb more light thus heat up because both light and heat are forms of energy. So when the light enters your dark object the energy is transformed into heat.
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