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Q: What happens when a beam of sunlight shines through a prism?
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What happens when a ray shines through a prism?

it makes a rainbow


What happens to the spectrum if a red light shines on a prism?

red light is monochromatic light and if it shines on a prism its still red light pass through the prism, not 'rainbow' color.


What happens to the light if the light shines through a prism?

White light separates into seven colours


Where does the white light from a rainbow come from?

When sunlight shines through rain drops, the rain drops act like a prism, and the sunlight is split into the rainbow colours we see and know as a rainbow.


When light shines into a prism a rainbow of colors comes out of the prism.?

When ordinary visible light shines on a prism.


How do you use prism in a sentence?

Wow that prism sure makes some pretty colors when light shines through it!


When light shines through a prism what do you see?

a reflection of an image


What is a prism and what does it do to a white light?

They separate light into the light spectrum. If a beam of light shines through a prism, a rainbow of color will show out through the opposite side.


When sunlight is passed through a glass prism it breaks up into different colors when these colors are passed through a reverse prism they form white light this shows that?

sunlight contains all colors.


What does passing sunlight through a prism do?

Color is a direct function of light by passing sunlight through a prism and observing the bands of spectrum of colors was discovered by Isaac Newton. It was discovered in the 1660's.


What can you found when light shines through a prism?

After a rain shower you can usually see a rainbow in the sky. If you shine light through a prism you see a rainbow or more correctly the colour spectrum


How does white and water make a rainbow?

The water acts like a prism and white light shines through it, it makes a rainbow.