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Do all the colors of the rainbow leave a prism at the same place?
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No as different colours of light(that is different wavelengths) move through glass at different speeds they bend when entering and exiting the prism by different amount causing a dispersion of the light into different wavelengths.
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How does a rainbow get its color?
The light from the sun goes through the water vapor in the air. The vapor acts like a prism, projecting the spectrum (the colors) of the rainbow into the sky.
Visible light can be separated into different colors by using a?
Separating light into various colors produces a spectrum or rainbow.
What colors are in a light prism?
A prism refracts light into its component colours just like a rainbow does, so some of the colours are.... * Red * Orange * Yellow * Green * Blue * Indigo * Voilet .... and there are lots of intermediary colours in there also.
Which type of spectrum is produced when light from the sun passes through a prism?
It is the spectrum of visible light, which has the colors of the rainbow.
How does a prism create a rainbow pattern of light?
White light is really all the colors of light, red to indigo, combined together. Running the light through a prism (including raindrops) splits those colors out separately because each light bends a little more or less than its neighboring colors when going through the prism (or raindrops).
Why are there lots of colors in a rainbow?
A rainbow occurs when a wave of light is filtered through a prism, in most cases, raindrops. The prism then separates the light into all of the colors from which it is comprised.
How can you separate rainbow colors individually as from a mixture?
we can separate rainbow colors from a mixture by passing them through the triangular prism.
When light shines into a prism a rainbow of colors comes out of the prism.?
When ordinary visible light shines on a prism.
When you look at white light through a glass prism you see a rainbow of color called?
light is white. if you mix the colors of the rainbow you get white. A prism separates the colors, showing a rainbow.
What is the object that separates white light into the colors of the rainbow?
A prism
Can the colors of the rainbow be broken down when going through the prism?
YES
Does a prism split light into the rainbow of colors representing a spectrum?
It does indeed.
How does a rainbow get its color?
The light from the sun goes through the water vapor in the air. The vapor acts like a prism, projecting the spectrum (the colors) of the rainbow into the sky.
How does a prism work and what it does?
What exactly does a "prism" do? How does it work?well it turns out that a prism has light that reflects and on the other side out comes colors of the rainbow
How can white light be split to form a rainbow?
Artificially, a rainbow can be produced by passing white light (sunlight) through a prism. The light passing through the prism constitutes the seven colors of the rainbow.
Which scientist discovered that when light passes through a prism it splits into the seven colors that are colors of the rainbow?
Newton
What are the seven prism colors?
the colors of the rainbow - red orange yellow green blue indigo violet
