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When can light bend?
Light could bend when it enters a prism. A prism is a transparent object such as glass.
What is the name given to the change in direction of the ray of light as it enters a prism?
Refraction
What happens when a light ray enters a prism?
All the colors of the visible light spectrum are made visible.
How many times is white light refracted when passed through a prism?
Two times. One when the light beam crosses the air-prism interface and enters the prism and a second time when the beam crosses the prism-air interface on its way out of the prism.
What happens when you shine a light ray into a light prisim?
When the light ray strikes the surface of the prism, both when it enters and when it leaves, it bends owing to the different in the speeds of light in air and the material of which the prism is made. The amount of bending depends in part on the frequency of the light which is related to the colour of the light, hence the appearance of a colour spectrum which can be seen from a triangular prism.
When can light bend?
Light could bend when it enters a prism. A prism is a transparent object such as glass.
What a prism does to light?
As the light passes through the prism, the resulting effect is called a 'refraction'. In other words, the light enters from one side of the prism and is then 'redirected' at a right angle as it exits the prism.
Why does light exit the prism differently than it enters it?
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What is the name given to the change in direction of the ray of light as it enters a prism?
Refraction
What happens when a light ray enters a prism?
All the colors of the visible light spectrum are made visible.
What occurs in a prism?
What happens when light enters a prism is the light is broken up into all its natural colors. Hence what happens when you see a rainbow, all the little rain drops act as a prism.
How many times is white light refracted when passed through a prism?
Two times. One when the light beam crosses the air-prism interface and enters the prism and a second time when the beam crosses the prism-air interface on its way out of the prism.
What happens when a light hits a prism and why does it happen?
The light sctters into a spectrum.
When light enters the eye what order does it happen?
ROYGBIVRedOrangeYellowGreenBlueIndigoViolet
How does a prism work?
They refract light as the light enters through one side of the prism, at a certain angle, the glass that the prism is made of, decreases the speed of light. And so it bends. Then it hits the other face and emerges out, and that is when the dispersion happens and the white light splits into the spectrum of seven colours
What will happen when a light is shone at a glass prism?
it will make a rainbow on the wall
What happens when you shine a light ray into a light prisim?
When the light ray strikes the surface of the prism, both when it enters and when it leaves, it bends owing to the different in the speeds of light in air and the material of which the prism is made. The amount of bending depends in part on the frequency of the light which is related to the colour of the light, hence the appearance of a colour spectrum which can be seen from a triangular prism.
