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Blue light enters the prism and is refracted (bent) by the glass and emerges as blue light on the other side. Blue light is bent (refracted) most due to its slow(er) speed than say Red light which is faster and has a longer wavelength. Newton did an experiment like this and concluded that white light was made up of different colours of light together. Shine a white light through a prism and it will emerge as all the colours of the rainbow. Blue light is unchanged as it consists only of blue light Answered by Chris Banks.
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∙ 16y ago
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∙ 13y agoI'm assuming you are talking about a triangular dispersive prism:
A prism refracts a beam of light into the different spectral colors or wavelengths that make up that beam. White light is made up of all of the visible colors of light, and that is why when you pass white light through a prism you see a rainbow of spectral colors. If you pass blue light through a prism, the prism will separate the light into the wavelengths that constitute that blue light. (i.e. if the "blue light" has more than one wavelength of light, say 'near-violet blue' and 'near-green blue' than those wavelengths will be separated.) However, if the blue light is from a laser and there is only one wavelength of light than there will obviously be no separation of component light wavelengths. Since the light beam is entering a different medium than air (in this case usually glass) the blue light will be refracted. You can find a good visual by using Bing Image to search "laser+prism."
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∙ 15y agoIt depends on the "purity" of the red light. If it's truly a single wavelength red light, only red will come out of the prism.
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∙ 11y agoIt's deflected and spread (unless it's coherent light, in which case its just deflected).
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∙ 15y agoDepending on the angles at which blue light and red light hit the prism, the most likely output would be blue light and red light
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∙ 11y agoIt is bent, and comes out green in a slightly different direction.
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∙ 6y agoA red light, but in a different direction.
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What happens when red light hits a prism?
A prism demonstrates this principle?no never ifsfrdi
Why is white light dispersed by a glass prism?
When white light(composite light) consisting of various colors is passed through a prism, light of different colors will be deviated through different angles. Since the deviation is related to refractive index and refractive index to the color of light the deviation produced for different colors are different for same prism.That is the refractive indices are different for the various colors and this difference in the refractive indices is responsible for dispersion.
What affect does a different colored light bulb have on a prism?
A prism will split light into its component colors. If a colored light is used, there will be less colors in the split light. A beam from a red light for instance will have very little blue or green light in it so you will not get the full spectrum from the prism.
When light is refracted through a prism different colours emerge where do the different colours come from?
Type your answer here... OK. White light is made of the colours of the spectrum (Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo and Violet - these are the same as the colours of the rainbow). The reason you see these colours instead of wwhite when you shine white light through a prism is that the prism "bends" the light - which splits it into the colours of the spectrum. Red light is the longest, so it is bent the least, and Violet is the shortest - so it is bent the most. This is also how rainbows are made - the rain droplets act as prisms to disperse (split) the light into the colours of the spectrum.
Can light be separated into colors?
Using a prism a beam of light can generally be defracted into the different colors that make up that beam of light. The visible spectrum of red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet can often be seen.
What happens when light passes through the prism in wrong angle?
There is no 'wrong angle' - it either passes through the prism or it doesn't. The blue or violet waves will be the most diffracted.
What happens when light passes a prism?
When light passes through a prism, it is refracted slightly and separated into seven individual beams of coloured light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
What happens when light is shone through a prism?
It depends on the shape of the prism and the angle of incidence. For prism in the shape of an equilateral triangle the white light splits into the colours of the spectrum as red light is slowed down less than blue in glass, so the red light is bent less than the blue
Passing light through a prism does what?
The different wavelengths of light refract(blue the most and red the least)
What happens when mixes different light together to a prism?
If you separate "white" light in a prism, you get the visible spectrum, (ROYGBIV). If you get that back together, you get "white" light. If you mix red and blue, you get purple, and so on.
Which color ray is bent the most when colors of light pass through a prism?
Blue
What happeneds when light passes through a prism?
When light passes through a prism, it is refracted slightly and separated into seven individual beams of coloured light - red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.
Why does white light change colour when it passes through a prism?
It doesn't. What happens is that the colors that are already in it are separated by the prism. It's basically because short waves (blue) are refracted more than long waves (red).
What happens to white light after it passes through a prism and why?
The light is broken down into 7 colors which are voilet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, and red. The same happens in water molecules during a rainy day. This is because the light gets refracted.
What happens when red light hits a prism?
A prism demonstrates this principle?no never ifsfrdi
When sunlight passes through a prism what colour dispersed light bends the least?
Red.
What happens blue light passes through a blue filter?
425-500nm
